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Lumifer comments on AIFoom Debate - conclusion? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Bound_up 04 March 2016 08:33PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 March 2016 08:29:10PM 0 points [-]

so who knows what one could do with 1k GPUs

The answer is "mine Bitcoin in the pre-FPGA days" :-)

This year Nvidia is releasing its next generation of GPUs (Pascal) which is supposed to provide a major speed-up (on the order of 10x) for neural net applications.