Carl T. BergstromThe New York Times just discovered parallel computing.
Matt Blaze@ct_bergstrom That is impressively wrong.
Sophie Schmieg@mattblaze @ct_bergstrom I legit thought it was some misunderstanding of quantum computing at first, but then the title says "AI computing" and I got nothing.
(And to be clear, quantum computing also does not work like that)
willpuckett@sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom Yeah, I can't even figure out what they got wrong. It's that wrong.
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David Mankins@mattblaze @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom I’m guessing someone told them at a high level how GPUs do their thing and they mapped “GPU” to “AI”.
wrosecrans@lain_7 @mattblaze @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom
For anybody not interested in graphics, Nvidia brands itself as an "AI Chip" company these days. GPU's are parallel. AI runs on GPU's. GPU's are "AI Chips" these days. So "AI compute" is compute running on parallel hardware.
This makes perfect sense as long as you never heard of "computation" before six months ago, and everything you know about computers is from vapid press releases hyping AI scams.
derptron@wrosecrans @lain_7 @mattblaze @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom A lot of those chips are integrated GPU chips. It's both a regular CPU and a GPU. They can do a lot, but yeah AI is usually what they are used for.
The Jensen Orin is an example of this.
One of the ideas for that thing is to use AI to analyze brain waves and control your limbs if you've got some injury that severed something in your spine. You'd wear something like an Orin among other things.
Joby 
(he/him)@mattblaze @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom My theory is that somebody was trying to explain to them why massively parallel computing is better for neural nets, and they heard it as we'd invented the whole concept just for AI, and just extrapolated all wrong from there.
Chilly 
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💀 𝓕airchild 💀@mattblaze @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom I _think_ they're comparing a single-threaded CPU to a modern GPU??? Which is nonsensical. We've had multiprocessing for decades.
As Pauli might have said, this is not only not right, it is not even wrong.
@tankgrrl @sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom Right. The part I struggle with is how you can know enough to describe parallel processing reasonably well, but not know enough to know that AI and parallel processing are completely different concepts.
Björn ❄️ StarkimarmIt's a case of "so wrong, even the opposite is not correct". F for failed the topic of the assignment.
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