{"id":109333,"date":"2020-06-29T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem"},"modified":"2020-06-29T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:44:22","slug":"the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem","title":{"rendered":"The cost of training machines is becoming a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cost-of-training-machines-is-becoming-a-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many comparatively simple ai applications, that means that the cost of training a computer is falling, says Christopher Manning, an associate director of the Institute for Human-Centered AI at the University of Stanford. But that is not true everywhere. A combination of ballooning complexity and competition means costs at the cutting edge are rising sharply.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Increased complexity and competition are part of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong itemProp=\"articleSection\">Technology Quarterly<\/strong><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/2020-06-13\" data-test-id=\"Article Datetime\"> Jun 11th 2020 edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many comparatively simple ai applications, that means that the cost of training a computer is falling, says Christopher Manning, an associate director of the Institute for Human-Centered AI at the University of Stanford. But that is not true everywhere. A combination of ballooning complexity and competition means costs at the cutting edge are rising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109333","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}