🧠AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
Understanding how the subparts of the brain (say, neurons) work will never allow us to understand how the brain works.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
The brain remains the single most sophisticated object in the known universe—by a staggering margin—even in an era of mobile devices, spacecraft, and particle accelerators. It outpaces our most powerful supercomputers, all within a volume measured in cubic inches, powered by nothing more than a fraction of the calories we consume each day. The stor
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How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity?
In three words: deep learning worked.
In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “ru... See more
In three words: deep learning worked.
In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
That’s really it; humanity discovered an algorithm that could really, truly learn any distribution of data (or really, the underlying “ru... See more