AI research increasingly requires datacenter-scale computation, raising concerns that only a few big tech companies will dominate advances in the field
Each big step of progress in computing — from mainframe to personal computer to internet to smartphone — has opened opportunities …
AI is an energy hog: the volume of calculations needed to be a leader in A.I. tasks like language understanding, game playing and common-sense reasoning has soared an estimated 300,000 times in the last six years. https://www.nytimes.com/...