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Moore's law is irrelevant. Large language models are going to leave the digital paradigm behind altogether. Neural nets don't need fully precise digital comput
by stormfather 3y ago
Moore's law is irrelevant. Large language models are going to leave the digital paradigm behind altogether.
Neural nets don't need fully precise digital computing. Especially with quantization we're seeing that losing a bit of precision in the weights isn't impactful. Now that we're serving huge foundation models with static weights there's an enormous incentive to develop analog hardware to run them.
Mark my words, this will lead to a renaissance in analog computing, and in the future we will be shocked at the enormous waste of having run huge models on digital chips.
Just think, how many multiplications per second is the light refracting through your window right now clocking? More or less than is required to ChatGPT do you think? If only the crystals were configured correctly and the patterns of light coming through could be interpreted...
- Terr_ 3y ago> Just think, how many multiplications per second is the light refracting through your window right now clocking? It really depends where you draw the lines, because you could also say that one single transistor in my electrical CPU is doing a kerjillion calculations for all of the atoms and electrons involved.
- stormfather 3y agoExactly. The important quantity is how many calculations are being used.