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Re:Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter by tehjoker on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:03AM (#26643993)
I wonder to what extent running a quality AI will require a lot of FLOPs as a baseline or specialized hardware to achieve low FLOPs.

Human brains fire only paths in use (and do everything in parallel), but a neural network needs to recalculate the weights on the whole network each training pass for example. Maybe there are some newer techniques that reduce that somewhat.

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Re:Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter by wutbrodo on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:17AM (#26644059)
I don't think it's a given that the architectures that get us to AGI will be constrained in exactly the way current neural networks are.
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Re:Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter by CodeGlitch on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:11AM (#26644334)
Yes I could be like the difference between birds and planes, still using the laws of aerodynamics but in a different way. One of those scales, the other doesn't.
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