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While I don't know real numbers, back of the enveloper estimations for hardware costs alone (based on GCP TPU/GPU pricing) give order of hundreds thousands for
by vl 8y ago
While I don't know real numbers, back of the enveloper estimations for hardware costs alone (based on GCP TPU/GPU pricing) give order of hundreds thousands for BERT, and tens of millions for AlphaGo and friends. Notice how very few organizations in the world are in position to commit these kind of resources to AI problems, and that only Google and China are choosing to do so.
- netheril96 8y agoAnd? Most scientific breakthroughs after the World War II require expensive equipments and materials. That fact doesn't make the achievements from Google, from Bell Labs, from CERN, from Fermilab less innovative.