Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to
@dgerard “From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs” wait this dude is wetting his knickers about Out Of Memory errors?
No no, it’s “order of magnitudes”. It’s like “surgeons general.”
Counterpoint: in Afrikaans (and likely Dutch I guess? Haven’t checked) “oom” is “uncle”
You may now proceed to enjoying this little diversion as much as I do
Dunno about Afrikaans, but you are correct about Dutch.
you can be sure about afrikaans (since I am)
success has many fathers, but the best chatgpt can get are uncles