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Razenganyesterday at 6:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

> We are probably going to need a lot more GPUs.

Or a breakthrough in algorithms etc.

The human brain, heck all bio brains, are proof that you don't need a lot of power or size for intelligence.


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ryandvmyesterday at 7:11 PM

The human brain has 80 billion neurons and a 100 trillion synapses. I think you're underselling the processing power of that warm chunk of meat.

The real message of the last 15 years has actually been the opposite: if you throw enough processing power at it, intelligence emerges.

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altcognitoyesterday at 6:27 PM

20 watts for inference AND training!

aeyesyesterday at 6:34 PM

For intelligence, I expect the next breakthrough to be colocation of memory and compute in the same chip. And we'll need much more of this memory, probably a few petabytes.