[HN Gopher] AI Scaling Myths
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       AI Scaling Myths
        
       Author : jgalt212
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-06-28 11:57 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | jgalt212 wrote:
       | Is this why Sam wants $7 trillion?
        
         | squircle wrote:
         | What if $7 trillion was spent eliminating economic disparities,
         | enriching our learning institutions, fostering individual and
         | community well-being, and ultimately drawing us away from
         | digital technology and media as the panacea of social-control
         | which is monopolizing our time and attention? Do we really need
         | AGI to solve problems for us, or might the already-existing
         | general intelligence imbued in each of us at birth be enough?
        
       | williamcotton wrote:
       | _And the industry is seeing strong downward pressure on model
       | size._
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       | I don't see this as good evidence that model parameter increases
       | have reached a limit.
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       | I see it as evidence that compute costs are very high.
        
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