Posted 9/18/2023, 7:11:42 PM

AI Computation Power Growing Exponentially Faster, Doubling Every 11 Months

AI computation power has grown exponentially, doubling every 18-24 months until 2010, every 5-7 months from 2010-2016, and now every 11 months.
Three key factors enable AI progress computation power, data availability, and algorithms.
Important AI models like AlexNet and AlphaGo marked new eras as computation needs skyrocketed into the petaFLOP range.
Recent models like GPT-3 require over 300 million petaFLOPs, showing massive growth.
It's unclear if computation can continue growing at this pace, as data availability and model complexity may slow progress.

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