{"id":107880,"date":"2020-05-30T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/openai-finds-machine-learning-efficiency-is-outpacing-moores-law"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:46:36","slug":"openai-finds-machine-learning-efficiency-is-outpacing-moores-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/openai-finds-machine-learning-efficiency-is-outpacing-moores-law","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Finds Machine Learning Efficiency Is Outpacing Moore\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-finds-machine-learning-efficiency-is-outpacing-moores-law2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago a machine learning algorithm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/26\/technology\/in-a-big-network-of-computers-evidence-of-machine-learning.html\">learned to identify a cat <\/a>\u2014and it stunned the world. A few years later AI could accurately translate languages and take down <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/03\/16\/google-beating-grandmaster-sedol-is-bigger-than-ibm-beating-kasparov\/\">world champion Go players<\/a>. Now, machine learning has begun to excel at complex multiplayer video games like Starcraft and Dota 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/07\/15\/the-poker-playing-ai-that-beat-the-worlds-best-players\/\">subtle games like poker<\/a>. AI, it would appear, is improving fast.<\/p>\n<p>But how fast is fast, and what\u2019s driving the pace? While better computer chips are key, AI research organization OpenAI thinks we should measure the pace of improvement of the actual machine learning algorithms too.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/ai-and-efficiency\/\">blog post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2005.04305.pdf\">paper <\/a>\u2014authored by OpenAI\u2019s Danny Hernandez and Tom Brown and published on the arXiv, an open repository for pre-print (or not-yet-peer-reviewed) studies\u2014the researchers say they\u2019ve begun tracking a new measure for machine learning efficiency (that is, doing more with less). Using this measure, they show AI has been getting more efficient at a wicked pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago a machine learning algorithm learned to identify a cat \u2014and it stunned the world. A few years later AI could accurately translate languages and take down world champion Go players. Now, machine learning has begun to excel at complex multiplayer video games like Starcraft and Dota 2 and subtle games like poker. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}