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Assertion Supported
The computing infrastructure required for AI inference vastly exceeds training
“It's a lot of computing infrastructure. It's actually much bigger than the infrastructure for learning.”
Yann LeCun Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 1:19:56 WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
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LLM inference costs dropped 100x in two years, far outpacing Moore's law
“I think the cost of inference for LLM has gone down by a factor of a hundred in two years. I mean, it's just, it's amazing, right? It's way faster than Moore's law.”
Yann LeCun Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 1:20:25 WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
DeepMind was founded on the premise that reinforcement learning leads to AGI
“There was a big wave of interest in reinforcement learning about, you know, a dozen years ago, and companies like DeepMind set themselves up with the idea that reinforcement learning was going to be the key element towards building truly intelligent machines.”
Yann LeCun Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 43:03 WTF is Artificial Intelligence Really? | Yann LeCun x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF Ep #4 · Nikhil Kamath
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