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PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 5 months agoAs far as I can find out, there was only one use of GPUs prior to alexnet for CNN, and it certainty didn’t have the impact alexnet had. Besides, running this stuff on GPUs not CPUs is a relevant technological breakthrough, imagine how slow chayGPT would be running on a CPU. And it’s not at all as obvious as it seems, most weather forecasts still run on CPU clusters despite them being obvious targets for GPUs.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
What? Alexnet wasn’t a breakthrough in that it used GPUs, it was a breakthrough for its depth and performance on image recognition benchmarks.
We knew GPUs could speed up neural networks in 2004. And I’m not sure that was even the first.
PeteBauxigeg@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Okay, so some of the advances that chatGPT uses (consumer GPUs for training) are even older? 😁
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Why stop there? The digital computer was introduced in 1942 and methods for solving linear equations were developed in the 1600s.