waveman comments on Nick Bostrom says Google is winning the AI arms race - Less Wrong

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Comment author: waveman 09 October 2016 08:40:56AM 1 point [-]

Following this for 40 years things definitely seem to have sped up. Problems that seemed intractable like the dog/cat problem are now passe.

I see a confluence of three things: more powerful hardware allows more powerful algorithms to run, and makes testing possible and once possible, much faster.

Researchers still don't have access to anywhere near the 10^15 flops that is roughly the human brain. Exciting times ahead.