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by lm28469 1364 days ago
A truck with 1000000000hp still won't beat a Ferrari on a race track, nothing guarantees faster hardware would solve any of our AI problems
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A 1000000000hp equivalent electric truck generating much tork would probably lift off and fly to the Moon, or dig itself so deep it would melt in lava. In the meantime, a cybertruck with 3 motors (or 4) may soon (2023?) challenge Ferrari.
Training time is a massive constraint on advancement of the science, so at the very least the field would progress much faster and be much more accessible to researchers.
Faster processing alone won't make training 1000x faster, the bottleneck is more on the memory size / bandwidth side
I feel people are overlooking the OP's mention of parallel improvements in storage and speed of access. While there are physical limits to this, I feel like capabilities will continue to expand not so much in terms of pure speed as in better automation of parallelization and resource allocation.
The thread is about the whole stack 1000x'ing. Not just processing speed.