Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns – Cost of improvement becoming unsustainable

Re:Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns – Cost of improvement... by dekhn on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:35PM (#36363466)

How is that different from any other capital-intensive industry. Basically my point is that there is nothing specific to DL in these articles/complaints, people are just jumping on the bandwagon.

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Re:Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns – Cost of improvement... by mrtranscendence on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:14PM (#36366519)

For me, the takeaway is that training state of the art models may become cost prohibitive even for large companies. There may be a practical limit to how complex models can become. This is at least plausibly interesting to know.

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