Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by JabavuAdams on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:03PM
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Why do we assume that AGI requires billions of $? Fundamentally, we don't know how to do it, so it may just require the right software design.
Nuclear weapons required enriched uranium, and the gaseous diffusion process of the time was insanely power-hungry. Like non-negligable (>1% ?) percentage of the US's entire electrical generation power-hungry.
Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by mantap on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:20PM
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Yes I think the better analogy is Fermat's Last Theorem. It didn't require billions of dollars, it just required one incredibly smart specialist grinding on the problem for years.
Nuclear weapons required enriched uranium, and the gaseous diffusion process of the time was insanely power-hungry. Like non-negligable (>1% ?) percentage of the US's entire electrical generation power-hungry.