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orlp • yesterday at 11:14 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I'd really like some clarity on what that means. E.g. DeepMind has 'cheated' with this in the past, claiming that AlphaZero only took 4 hours to reach super-human chess levels while conveniently leaving out the fact that it was 4 hours x 5000+ TPUs. Sure it's impressive that it only took 4 hours wall-clock but it's very misleading as to cost.

Can we get a number in Blackwell GPU-hours, kWh, or some other compute-scaled metric?


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timjver • yesterday at 11:19 PM

>OpenAI has 'cheated' with this in the past, claiming that AlphaZero [...]

That doesn't sound right

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machomaster • yesterday at 11:30 PM

They did say that. "3 hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute"

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pixl97 • yesterday at 11:45 PM

Depends what your metrics are. If you suddenly found a way to have 9 women make a baby in one month that is huge.

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