[revelio]

It's not just about hardware, it's about the software infrastructure to go with it. Other than OpenAI most researchers weren't interested in "merely" scaling things up because that was/is seen as simple engineering, unworthy of the great minds who dream up new algorithms.

[sanderjd]

So I worked at Google for awhile (not on AI) and this wasn't my impression of what was going on with the AI teams there. But :shrug:, I dunno.