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"When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory." Bill Gates
by enduser 3y ago
"When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory."
Bill Gates
- bagels 3y agoGates has refuted saying this. Are you implying by analogy that Altman hasn't said/will disclaim saying that "the age of giant AI models is almost over"?
- enduser 3y agoJust that there is tremendous hubris in the statement—at least when the statement stands alone. Vastly larger LLMs will probably become one or more relatively small components or layers of much larger systems that run on whatever we use as telephones in 20 years. I suspect what he means is that OpenAI is finding diminishing returns from throwing money and hardware at larger models right now and that they are investigating other and/or composite AI techniques that make more optimal use of their hardware investment.
- gowld 3y agoThat was in context of a how much RAM would be needed for software of that era, not the entire future of computing.