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of AI
from Naturally Stupid
by LASA Ezine
his algorithms which are now known as AlexNet. He used deep neural networks, which…require a lot of computing power and they require a lot of data. He used graphical processing units (called GPUs) for deep learning… and that started the hype in deep learning.” AlexNet blew all other approaches away with a 16% error rate, while the next closest contenders were in the 2535% range.
In 2017, the AI AlphaGo was made by the company DeepMind and was designed to outplay humans in the game Go. Its first iteration, AlphaGo
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Lee, was named for its iconic match against world-class Go player Lee Sedol. Soon after, DeepMind made an interesting choice. They reset AlphaGo’s training data back to zero and taught it again. Only this time, it learned solely by playing against itself. This version, called AlphaGo Zero, was able to outperform AlphaGo Lee in under three days of training and went on to become the best Go AI ever created, by far. Sicular observes: “The AlphaGo algorithm made a move in one of the games, it’s what’s known as move 37. But the algorithm doesn’t know [that the move is uncommon], so it makes this dramatic move that people don’t want, and that’s the beauty of AI.”
Recently, the famous AI known as ChatGPT emerged. Made by OpenAI, it truly made the prowess of artificial intelligence available to everyone. Also, something to keep in mind is the amount of energy needed for much of this computing infrastructure. “Training GPT-3, which is a single general-purpose AI program that can generate language and has many different uses, took 1.287 gigawatt-hours, according to a research paper published in 2021, or about as much electricity as 120 US homes would consume in a year,” states a Bloomberg Article by Josh Saul and Dina Bass.
People have always had a hard time accepting decisions made by data and machines until there is enough understanding and value seen from it. As Saxena says: “I think that ChatGPT also has to go through the same evolution, that people have to start fully understanding and accepting it.”
