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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by paulsutter on Sunday December 27, 2015 @08:29AM (#10797382)
The most important new code is massively parallel. Using GPUs today but surely new architectures soon. The human brain is highly parallel, so no surprise there.

Look how tiny the source code to Deepmind's general Atari player. It's a completely different model from traditional development:

https://sites.google.com/a/deepmind.com/dqn/

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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by sushirain on Sunday December 27, 2015 @02:59PM (#10798550)
You are right. If deep learning takes more and more of the processing, we will need GPUs or more CPU cores, not necessarily clock speed.
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