Americans started their march towards preeminence in engineering with the need for construction of canals. It continued with the construction of the railroads, and then branched out into areas of manufacturing such as Ford's invention of the assembly line (which may have benefited from the directions of a Canadian accountant).
By now it is pretty much accepted that the Americans do the smartest engineering in the world.
Which makes the current pursuit of generative artificial intelligence so strange. The construction of large language models does not rely on any particular elegance. There are no new insights that are directing the building of large language models. American, and other, corporations involved in this pursuit are simply building bigger and bigger datacentres, with bigger and bigger processing chips, and more and more of them, run by ever increasing power plants, in order to build the tools for generative AI.
Work harder, not smarter. Go for brute force. If it doesn't fit, just grab a bigger hammer.
No comments:
Post a Comment