An amazing Epoch AI report from Emberson and Roodman: Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter. That is a 13-fold drop every year – a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history. To give an example, OpenAI […]
That’s a shit comparison. AI started on general purpose compute. And still is for the most part.
Using non general purpose compute just is much cheaper. And tokens on past models don’t compare to current token. This is a bad faith graph.