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The people most worried about AI are the ones not working on it. We don't know how to initialise a simple feed forward neural network yet let alone train it eff
by thrwayxyz 7y ago
The people most worried about AI are the ones not working on it. We don't know how to initialise a simple feed forward neural network yet let alone train it efficiently. It will be centuries before the theory catches up with the proctice. Until then we might as well be monks cross pollinating plants worried about genetic modification.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoLikely gross pessimism. We went from clockwork to million-transitor computers in the last 100 years (most of that in the last 25). How long before we hit a billion? A trillion? How long before we hit on the same trick nature blindly hit upon, to initialize her neural networks?
- thrwayxyz 7y agoIt doesn't matter how deep a hole you did. You won't strike oil if you're digging at the wrong place.
- jodrellblank 7y agoWe hit a billion transistors in a CPU in about 2010, ten billion in 2015, and now some pass twenty-three billion. In GPUs, a billion transistors in 2009, twenty-one billion in 2017. In FGPAs, a billion in 2004 and fifty billion in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count