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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Importance of Compute in AI

The Bloom paper had that there was 35% increase in, was it transfer to the destiny or cost per flop? And there was a 7% increase per year in the number of researchers required to sustain that pace. We are spending tremendously more money on computer hardware for training big AI models. If you have twice as many computers, you can run two separate instances of them. That's how we get improvements from using some of our compute not just to run more instances of the existing AI, but to train larger AI's.

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