What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

(catalystneuro.com)

31 points | by bkd9 an hour ago ago

6 comments

  • AnotherGoodName 25 minutes ago

    I think a big one is robotics. A robot can today fold your laundry. It takes ~10mins per item. Seriously. It takes a long time to process the image find the corner move the claw to the corner of the shirt and attempt to straighten before folding.

    Robots right now generally move at glacial speeds. You might have seen robots doing flips in semi controlled environments but watch how slowly they open doors etc. processing time is a major bottleneck.

    • andai 4 minutes ago

      Wait til the robots get on Cerebras, it'll set your pants on fire.

      • LoganDark a few seconds ago

        Unless you have a fireproof wallet.

  • brotchie 22 minutes ago

    There’s still 50-500x cost reduction in “this is only an engineering problem” low hanging fruit from specialized chips to run the models + improved distillation.

    Entirely feasible that by 2031, Fable 5 (or greater) intelligence level models will run cool on smart phones, if not sooner.

  • bkd9 44 minutes ago

    Author here. I made these plots because I had been searching for them for months and never found quite what I wanted: how the cheapest way to reach a fixed capability level has moved over time. Artificial Analysis publishes enough data to reconstruct it. If someone knows of a source that already tracks this, with historical prices, please share.

  • qsera 14 minutes ago

    Idiocy becomes rampant!