On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:34 PM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Terren, we both know that's not the way AlphaCode works, it's a bit more >> complicated than that. > > > > *That is how it works. All I left out is the part about how it generates > the guesses* > Besides that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play? > > *I predict the current AlphaCode strategy will never lead to putting > engineers out of work, or self-improvement of the type that would lead to > the singularity. This is not like the AlphaZero strategy in which it > teaches itself the game. If they come out with a new code-writing AI that > teaches itself to code, then I will happily change my tune.* > When you learned how to code did you have to reinvent all the programming languages and techniques and do it all on your own with no help from teachers or friends or books or fellow coders? Did you have to rediscover the wheel? A lot of problems are solvable in principle but not in practice because >> they take too long, and time is money. The Fugaku Supercomputer in Japan, >> the fastest in the world, cost one billion dollars, so I figure if you >> could make its operating system run a little more efficiently so the >> machine was just 10% faster you could sell that program for about $100 >> million. > > > *> The $1B price tag isn't because of the OS, which will only use a tiny > fraction of the available computing power. * > The Fugaku Supercomputer has 7,630,848 cores and like all massively parallel computers most of the time most of those cores are not doing anything because they're waiting to receive some bit of information they need before they can start calculating; there's a big difference between the peak performance of a supercomputer and the actual performance it demonstrates when solving most problems. Any OS that can assign resources more efficiently so those inactive periods are reduced, even slightly, would have a big effect on the overall performance of the machine in solving real world problems, not running benchmark FLOP measuring programs. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> rew > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv09hZ4%3DgRkihHOhGd5tKAEd%2BUWS0PnWTC5wMiyXk3V6RQ%40mail.gmail.com.
