AI Can Do Great Things—If It Doesn't Burn the Planet
AI Can Do Great Things—If It Doesn't Burn the Planet
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 30, 20209m 7s
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Show Notes
Last month, researchers at OpenAI in San Francisco revealed an algorithm capable of learning, through trial and error, how to manipulate the pieces of a Rubik's Cube using a robotic hand. It was a remarkable research feat, but it required more than 1,000 desktop computers plus a dozen machines running specialized graphics chips crunching intensive calculations for several months. The effort may have consumed about 2.
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