Why AI progress is faster than Moore’s Law — the age of the algorithm
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Moore’s original 1965 paper Cramming more components onto integrated circuits contained a number of incredible insights. One of them has been shorthanded into “computers get 2x faster every 2 years.”.Moore’s vision has come to pass. You can buy a “handy home computer” at walmart and pick up some deodorant at the same time.Figure from Moore’s paperComputer algorithms, for non machine learning problems, have not had quite as much improvement. Quick sort for example, a commonly used sorting algorithm, is turning 60 years old next year.animation of Quick sort from wikipediaDeep learning algorithm improvementMachine learning models have been progressing at a much faster rate. Here’s an example, a comparison of a sub system used in many object detection systems called “region proposal networks”:“mAP” (...)
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