How would this work for books?

Posted Jul 19, 2021 9:37 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: How would this work for books? by sandsmark
Parent article: GitHub is my copilot

It returned the crown in 18th season and got neural networks in 19th.

I think “neural network revolution” is similar to “demise of assembler” in the end of last century.

Hand-written assembler was still worse then what high-level languages produced, but development time was so drastically different that it was impossible for assembler developers to deliver anything fast enough for it to be competitive.

Stockfish uses ƎUИИ to deal with some fringe cases where they just don't have time to fine-tune the algorithm.

The fate of the computer chess (and the world, arguably) depends on whether chip developers would be able to develop massive 3D chips (with thousands and later, maybe even millions, of layers… Moore's law turned 90 degrees, in a sense). For now this is only used for flash (but memories always used new technologies first because they need a lot of transistors but have very simple structure), but if active components will follow then it would be demise of modern computing parading and rise of neural networks.

This is because of power consumption: you couldn't put mullion cores into one chip while keeping them at gigahertz range, the whole thing would consume so much power it would be impossible to cool it (even if you find a way to supply all that power). Modern programming techniques couldn't work in trillions of 1MHz cores — but neural networks can.

Whether this would be enough to create strong AI or not… nobody knows.