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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

80,000 Hours Podcast

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How to Get More Effective Compute

The best data that I've seen on this suggests that every two and a half years compute gets twice as cheap. The second big way is improving the quality of computer chips. And then algorithms say how effectively and efficiently can you use that compute to actually train an AI system.

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