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100B Humanities of Compute in a Single 42U Rack by 2123

3 pointsby hialmost 2 years ago
The human brain has roughly 20 PFLOPS of compute according to Ray Kurzweil.[0]<p>Currently, a 42U rack with A100s has roughly 20 PFLOPS of compute.[1]<p>If we continue with Moores Law, doubling every 18 months, we could theoretically reach 1.7 x 10^22 PFLOPS of compute in the same 42U rack in 100 years.<p>This equates to the power of 850 quintillion human brains.<p>A single rack could hypothetically hold the equivalent of 100 billion humanities&#x27; computational power in a century.<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Computer_performance_by_orders_of_magnitude#Petascale_computing_(1015)<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nvidia_DGX#DGX_Station_A100

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h2odragonalmost 2 years ago
Brains are more energy efficient, portable, and tastier.<p>Why haven&#x27;t we trained, say, hamsters to drive our delivery robots?
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AnimalMuppetalmost 2 years ago
Extrapolating Moore&#x27;s Law out another hundred years seems highly optimistic. That would give you transistors 10^20 times smaller than they are today. You&#x27;re not going to be making such transistors out of atoms...
Am4TIfIsER0pposalmost 2 years ago
Sure you can add 2 floats 2e16 times a second but can you do anything useful with it? I know my computing tasks have some branches in there. I also occasionally need to wait for data. Anyway there won&#x27;t be anyone smart enough to write to AI program in 100 years so there will never be 1 brain equivalent.
gtirlonialmost 2 years ago
It takes OpenAI millions of dollars to train and keep ChatGPT running, they basically can&#x27;t get enough GPUs at this point, and it&#x27;s so far away from AGI that it&#x27;s not even funny. In a 100 years we may have AGI or not. I wouldn&#x27;t hold my breath.