Re:Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to De...
by jeremyjh on Saturday February 10, 2018 @07:36PM
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The point is that the barrier is REAL. It isn't "apparent" or "artificial". It is a fact about current computing resources.
Re:Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to De...
by mindcrime on Sunday February 11, 2018 @12:05AM
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the barrier is REAL. It isn't "apparent" or "artificial". It is a fact about current computing resources.
Right. And let me add this: what I was getting at is that the ceiling is not an innate part of the approach itself. Perhaps I should have said "external" instead of "artificial". Anyway, yes, the point is about current computing resources vs computing resources (and other factors) at some indeterminate point in the future.
Even if that's true (and I don't think anybody can prove that point one way or the other just yet), who's to say that we have "sufficient compute resources" right now? That's what I'm getting at... an idea might be useful / valid in principle, but just not completely usable today because we don't have enough compute cycles available. The analogy is to ANN's which were limited by the computers available in the 80's and 90's, but became markedly more useful with modern CPU's and - even more so - with the advent of modern GPU's.