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And just 4 hours for AlphaZero to teach itself chess, and beat every human and computer program ever created.... DNA sequencing went from $3b per genome to $60

And just 4 hours for AlphaZero to teach itself chess, and beat every human and computer program ever created.... DNA sequencing went from $3b per genome to $600, in about 30 years, much, much faster than Moore's "law".

nkurz 7y ago
Why do you say "much, much faster"? $600 to $3 billion is about the same as going 2^9 (512) to 2^32 (4.3B), which requires 23 doublings. Moore's law initially[1] specified a doubling every year (30 years would be 30 doublings), then was revised to every two years (15 doublings), but is often interpreted as doubling every 18 months (20 doublings). Seems pretty close to me! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law