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Chen: AlphaGo Zero used 4 TPUs and 3 days, crushing prior versions
“It was 48 TPUs versus four. It was three days versus 40. It was thirty million trained games versus 4.9. So Order of magnitude improvement on all of those dimensions.”
Chen: Google powers DeepMind algorithms using commodity x86 PC hardware
“Like if you look at an x-a-t-e-s server in a data center, exactly the servers that Google is using to compute deep mind algorithms, they're PCs.”
Shanahan: DeepMind's published DQN algorithm lacks inner rehearsal capabilities
“For the bit of work that they actually published, I think one of its shortcomings, actually, is that, in fact, although it has done all that learning about what the right action to do in, in the right circumstance is, it doesn't actually do in a rehearsal. It …”
2022 DeepMind paper showed dataset size matters more than parameter count
“In fact, in twenty-twenty-two, a pivotal paper came out that changed the way that many people in the research community thought about this very calculus. And it demonstrated that datasets were actually more important than just the sheer size of the model.”