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Hardware revolution pushes AI into the mainstream

• melling 7y ago
  “AI systems have followed a Moore’s Law on steroids. With new types of hardware and greater resources being thrown at the problem, the capabilities of the most advanced AI systems have doubled every 3.4 months“ “According to Stanford’s DawnBench project, which provides a way to benchmark AI systems, the time taken to train a system on the widely-used ImageNet data set has fallen from three hours to only 88 seconds in the space of less than two years. This translates into massive price deflation, with the cost falling from $2,323 to $12.”