compute
9 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Aug 24, 2023 by Jakob Uszkoreit · across every show →
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Aug 24, 2023 negative
Uszkoreit: LLM compute scales with token length, not problem difficulty
“Then ultimately, the way you scale that compute depends on the prompt and how much, how long that is. The longer the prompt, the more compute you get. And it depends on, and there's of course many different screws to tweak here, the length of the response. The…”
Nov 2, 2023 negative
Nov 9, 2023 bullish
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Nov 16, 2023 bullish
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Mitchell: LLMs allocate compute efficiently by deferring tasks to specialized tools
“I think, like, part of this is you can just allocate compute a lot more efficiently because you can defer stuff that the model doesn't have comparative advantage to doing to a tool that is, like, really well suited to doing that thing.”
May 1, 2026 bearish