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I don't think they'd have been super surprised. Just pleasantly happy. AI Accelerators have been a thing for decades - DSPs were used as neural network acceler
by abritinthebay 9y ago
I don't think they'd have been super surprised. Just pleasantly happy.
AI Accelerators have been a thing for decades - DSPs were used as neural network accelerators in the early 90s - and Cell processors were a thing by 2001.
GPUs just became vastly more accessible to general purpose program in the last decade. People were doing it back in the 90s but it was seriously hard.
We finally hit a tipping point where it's just kinda hard.
- cr0sh 9y agoThere were also the various custom "systolic array" processor designs in the 1980s (the ALVINN vehicle, and earlier projects which led to it, used these for early neural-network based self-driving experiments).