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Discussion[D] GPT-3, The $4,600,000 Language Model(self.MachineLearning)
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There’s some work estimating algorithmic progress on tasks like linear programming and object recognition. It looks like algorithmic progress is comparable to compute progress if you zoom out, and much more important if you look at a smaller timeline (eg translation SOTA from a couple years before transformers vs SOTA afterwards).
Academic research built the Large Hadron Collider. Of course it has a chance if it decides to dedicate the resources.
Couple of interesting articles related to this question:
https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-efficiency/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01736.pdf