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I suspect major algorithmic breakthroughs would accelerate the demand for GPUs instead of making it fall off, since the cost to apply LLMs would go down.
by laughing_man 9mo ago
I suspect major algorithmic breakthroughs would accelerate the demand for GPUs instead of making it fall off, since the cost to apply LLMs would go down.
- nroets 9mo agoSome changes to the algorithms and implementations will allow cheaper commodity hardware to be used.
- Rover222 9mo agoThere will always be an incentive to scale data centers. Better algorithms just mean more bang per gpu, not that “well, that’s enough now, we’ve done it”.
- MaxBarraclough 9mo agoSounds like the Jevons paradox. From https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox : > The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource. See also Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox