The Hardware Lottery
How hardware and software determine what research ideas succeed and fail.
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How hardware and software determine what research ideas succeed and fail.
Last summer, several business leaders and some artificial intelligence scientists published an open letter calling for a six-month pause in development of AI models more powerful than ChatGPT.
Gemini seemingly emerged mere months after Google amalgamated its Brain and DeepMind AI labs to establish a new research entity known as Google DeepMind.
Due to OpenAI's unusual structure, the company's board has total control over matters like firing Sam Altman, although three of four members don't work at the company.
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