[roenxi]

> We are chasing the wrong things...

It isn't obvious we are chasing anything. The graphics card industry was chasing more performance and the field of AI research was pushed along by that.

The field is full of smart people doing impressive work but there havn't ben any fundamental breakthroughs that aren't hardware driven.

[visarga]

It's not all possible because we have more compute. Algorithms have also gotten better and more efficient, on a range of 10-50x.

https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-efficiency/

[laichzeit0]

If you follow John Carmack’s foray into AI then it appears he’s also approaching it from the “scaling compute” perspective.