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0 pointsbaybal24y ago0 comments

> many other problems that will totally benefit from a bigger training computer.

I don't really think it's that many.

The industry collectively sank untold billions into the blind belief that neural algorithms will somehow turn into "AI."

10 years later, no "AI," and not even a single money making niche use.

Right now the industry is deep in sank cost falacy, and people who promised this, and that to investors are now desperate, and doubling their bets in hopes that "at least something will come out of it...," a casino mode basically.

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gpm4y ago

> not even a single money making niche use.

There are tons of money making niche uses of neural networks. From the branch predictor on your CPU, to trading on the stock market, to image-search engines.

spijdar4y ago

Yeah, you can make a point that it's a dead end if you want "real" "general AI" or whatever, but Google/Facebook/etc are definitely using it to their advantage in analytics, if nothing else.

dragontamer4y ago

Google will use TPUs. Their own technology.

Do you think Facebook would rather use Tesla Dojo instead of NVidia DGX A100 computers? Do you think any company, would rather choose this Dojo to build their internal software-stack on top of instead of CUDA / OpenCL / whatever?

I mean, its possible. But Tesla needs to start pumping out Github pages, documents, books, etc. etc. to document how exactly to use Dojo.

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atty4y ago

As someone who works in the field, if your only conception of AI is a truly sentient intelligence, then yes, we are, as far as I can tell, nowhere near that. However, if by AI, you mean the use of sub domains of AI like machine learning or deep learning (where all the money has been spent), it’s quite literally all around us now, whether you realize it or not. At my company our deployment of “AI” techniques is ramping up year over year, not slowing down, and we’re seeing very good results. (And I work at a very old company, not a tech native. I can only imagine how much of Google’s or Facebook’s workflows and products include some sort of machine learning)

stcredzero4y ago

The industry collectively sank untold billions into the blind belief that neural algorithms will somehow turn into "AI."

The huge qualitative differences between GPT-2 and GPT-3 seem to suggest that they will, if you just keep adding orders of magnitude more connections and more data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yVOC4ciXc

deepnotderp4y ago

What? Pretty much every major Internet company extensively uses NNs. Just recently there was a great published use case by Google using GNNs for travel time predictions

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