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"The Rise of Computation in Artificial Intelligence"

Jan 4, 2024 - 11:43amSummary: The article "The Bitter Lesson" shared by Raphael emphasizes the idea of relying on computation to achieve greater capabilities in artificial intelligence, rather than complex feature extraction methods. It underlines the notion that the accelerating pace of computation enables more significant advancements in AI. The possibility of tackling problems by increasing computational resources is highlighted, particularly in the context of contextual AI. The article suggests that models like Mamba, which employ state space techniques, may offer potential avenues for this approach.

Transcript: The bitter lesson that Raphael linked me to is really good and in some sense is pointing at my approach of like you know doing all kinds of like feature extraction and everything on top to kind of get somewhere. But also yeah I do kind of agree that like basically the point is computation is ever expanding and as a result of that computation we can do way more. And that's fascinating and yeah seems very very very true. And something to definitely keep in of basically just yeah kind of saying throw more compute at the problem and see where we get from there in terms of contextual AI. And I guess maybe that maybe that is possible and then figuring out ways that do that. Maybe these state space models like Mamba are a way of doing this. I want to play with them.

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