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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by jeffbee on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:59AM (#26331147)
I'm not sure that your scientific facilities cumulatively spent as much CPU time as DeepMind spent playing StarCraft. If we want to talk about energy and ethics in machine learning I guess that's where I would start.
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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by dekhn on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:45PM (#26331882)
Yes, my calculations used far more time than DM, with the caveat that my jobs ran on CPUs while most of their training is on accelerators.

I believe we reported that Exacycle provided 700K high speed Xeon cores for over a year, and the actual number is far higher (I can't share it because you'd be able to make a reasonable estimate on how many computers Google has).

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Re:AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship by visarga on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @01:49PM (#26332693)
> I'm not sure that your scientific facilities cumulatively spent as much CPU time as DeepMind spent playing StarCraft.

You gotta pay if you wanna play. Humans are the result of a much longer and more expensive evolutionary process. It's only normal to have to pay a little to do the same for AI.

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