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China should invest in an analog inference chip. It's a hail mary but why not.
by vatsachak 13d ago
China should invest in an analog inference chip. It's a hail mary but why not.
- geysersam 13d agoThey can probably afford to do both.
- sroussey 13d agoThat would be like skipping land line phones for mobile...
- bell-cot 13d agoI'd assume that they have - but will keep mum 'till they have a major breakthrough or large-scale operational deployment to announce.
- danielheath 13d agoThe two challenges there are firstly - that analog design has been a separate electrical engineering school for most of a century, so there are few who could design it - and secondly - that every single chip will have subtle variations in its computations, necessitating some sort of model finetuning per chip. Possibly the chip could be characterised at the factory, and ship with the characterisation data burned into a controller rom or something, but if that doesn’t pan out the whole thing is likely a non-starter. If it could be made to work, you could run a fable-grade model in tens of watts.
- itsthecourier 13d agoawesome explanation. never thought about the complexity of doing analog and having precision issues because it's not discrete anymore and repeatable
- simondotau 13d agoOr we treat them like humans and make each one do job interviews to work out what tasks they’re suited for.
- mindok 13d agoThis made me smile. A true test of human-like intelligence. Maybe they could take some entry level jobs (“I can make a nice Wordpress site”) and build a CV?
- pixl97 12d agoIt's the hidden sociopath that's able to mirror a functional entity that I'd be a bit worried about in these cases. Damn thing would make CEO quick.
- bobmcnamara 13d agoOr on DRAM on die compute