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Do you know how you'd go about implementing a video codec? A Haskell compiler? Linux kernel? Efficient relational database? wifi 802.11n radio? An efficient cl
by hgsgm 4y ago
Do you know how you'd go about implementing a video codec? A Haskell compiler? Linux kernel? Efficient relational database? wifi 802.11n radio? An efficient classical AI chess engine?
- starik36 4y agoI don't exactly how, but I have a good idea where to start. I've built a compiler before (in college). I've bootstrapped from hardware before, so I probably could built a very basic kernel. I've worked with radios at the low level in the 90s. But with ChatGPT, it just seems like magic.
- int_19h 4y agoNone of the actual moving bits are magic, though, and it's way more accessible than an OS kernel. The problem is that 1) you need a lot of raw GPU compute power to train and run a model that has GPT-3 capabilities, and 2) because the end result is a black box, nobody knows how it "actually works". In that sense, it is indeed technomagic.