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Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by swiftcoder »

deelowe wrote: post #7
yogorenapan wrote: post #2

The page had so many LLM-isms that I just can't make sense of. > 18,600+ Engineering years invested in vehicle safety to date What does this even mean? > 7,000,000 Lines of safety-assessed code Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again? Not to mention the em-dashes

> What does this even mean? It means over 18,600 engineering hours have been spent working on vehicle safety. This is a pretty common metric.

However, it's one of those metrics that tends to be kind of meaningless. Vehicle safety team uses GPUs, so lets bill all GPU driver teams to the metric... that sort of thing

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by lucamark »

I personally found this NVIDIA move very interesting. Automakers generally do not want to become frontier AI infrastructure companies and they love technology standardization.

The real technical challenge is rappresented by edge cases: a software that is excellent 99.9% of the time can still be unacceptable if the remaining 0.1% contains rare but catastrophic scenarios. And that's why we still don't see many self-driving vehicles on the roads today.

However, NVIDIA has a credible shot because it controls much of the loop - hardware, training infrastructure and simulation environment. If it works they will impose a huge vendor lock-in, difficult to replicate for other competitors.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by maeln »

deelowe wrote: post #7
yogorenapan wrote: post #2

The page had so many LLM-isms that I just can't make sense of. > 18,600+ Engineering years invested in vehicle safety to date What does this even mean? > 7,000,000 Lines of safety-assessed code Are we seriously using LoC as a measure of productivity again? Not to mention the em-dashes

> What does this even mean? It means over 18,600 engineering hours have been spent working on vehicle safety. This is a pretty common metric.

But they say years, not hours. Either it's a typo or nvidia has a ton of engineer and they all work 24/7.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by svnt »

18,600 engineering years sounds impressive to someone because it is the bulk of a career for 1,000 engineers. But it is less than two years for 10,000 engineers. The depth of understanding really hinges on which version is closer to reality.

Meta Horizons World probably puts up similar numbers if you sum up the hardware/software tech stack to get this number.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by sva_ »

mrd3v0 wrote: post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

> Safety transistors safety assessed

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by chorkpop »

Chilinot wrote: post #8
mrd3v0 wrote: post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

142 results now, they are multiplying!

And 170 for just "safe." It really makes it awkward to read.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by dude250711 »

mrd3v0 wrote: post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

I wonder if safety as in "taking legal responsibility" or some other kind of safety.

Re: Nvidia Halos

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Post by airstrike »

sva_ wrote: post #16
mrd3v0 wrote: post #4

I noticed too much use of the word "safety", like the LLM was told to emphasise it, so I did a little test: randomly scroll and move the mouse without looking, is there "safety" in there? I did it for 4 times and every time I found it. Ctrl+F -> 136 results.

> Safety transistors safety assessed

I was certain this was a joke...
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