Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
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Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#2There's no limit to the algorithms. People dont understand yet. They can learn the whole universe with a big enough compute cluster. We built a generalizable learning machine
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#3There's no limit to the algorithms. People dont understand yet. They can learn the whole universe with a big enough compute cluster. We built a generalizable learning machine
the question is will we experience resource constraints before we get there? what if the step up to post-scarcity is gated by a compute level just out of our reach?
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#4Can someone explain why everything is being marketed in terms of power consumption?
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#5There's no limit to the algorithms. People dont understand yet. They can learn the whole universe with a big enough compute cluster. We built a generalizable learning machine
Not sure if this is satire.
Edit: What we have built is a natural language interface to existing, textually recorded, information. Transformers cannot learn the whole universe because the universe has not yet been recorded into text.
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#6Can someone explain why everything is being marketed in terms of power consumption?
Because that’s the limiting factor
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#7Can someone explain why everything is being marketed in terms of power consumption?
Because that’s the limiting factor
Somehow we must be doing this wrong.
"Do you realize that the human brain has been liken to an electronic brain? Someone said and I don't know whether he is right or not, but he said, if the human brain were put together on the basis of an IBM electronic brain, it would take 7 buildings the size of the Empire State Building to house it, it would take all the water of the Niagara River to cool it, and all of the power generated by the Niagara River to operate it." (Sermon by Paris Reidhead, circa 1950s.[1])
We're there on size and power. Is there some more efficient way to do this?
[1] https://www.sermonindex.net/speakers/paris-reidhead/the-trag...
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#8Can someone explain why everything is being marketed in terms of power consumption?
It's more meaningful to most people than FLOPS/other measures of actual computing power.
Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that’s the limiting factor
Somehow we must be doing this wrong. "Do you realize that the human brain has been liken to an electronic brain? Someone said and I don't know whether he is right or not, but he said, if the human brain were put together on the basis of an IBM electronic brain, it would take 7 buildings the size of the Empire State Building to house it, it would take all the water of the Niagara River to cool it, and all of the power…
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Re: Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
#10Can someone explain why everything is being marketed in terms of power consumption?
It's easy to think about. Google reported a global average power consumption of 3.7GW in 2024, so you can think of this deal as representing an expansion of something like 10-15% of that 2024 baseline, if you assume 50% capacity utilization.