Comment by sbierwagen
Comment by sbierwagen 14 hours ago
The hardware overhang embodied: that early AI will be inefficiently embodied as a blob of differentiable floating point numbers in order to do gradient descent on them, and shortly after be translated into a dramatically simpler and faster form. An AGI that requires a full rack of H100s to run, suddenly appearing on single video game consoles. https://www.lesswrong.com/w/computing-overhang
Fun fact: Deep Blue was a dedicated chess compute cluster that ran on 30 RS/6000 processors and 480 VLSI chips. If the Stockfish chess program existed in 1997 it would have beaten it with a single 486 CPU: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/75dnjiD8kv2khe9eQ/measuring-...
AGI is made-up nonsense, so it's better to phrase the hardware overhang (and anything else that is meant to refer to reality) without reference to it.