People didn’t necessarily have a use for all the extra compute
Can you please explain the bizarre use of the word “compute” here? Is this a typo? “compute” is a verb. The noun form would be “computing” or “computing power.”
It was not meant as irony or a joke. Both questions you asked are simple factual questions that you could have answered quickly on your own using an LLM or a traditional search engine.
What is so great about that 2007 paper?
Can you please explain the bizarre use of the word “compute” here? Is this a typo? “compute” is a verb. The noun form would be “computing” or “computing power.”
The paper is from 2017, not 2007. It’s one of the foundational papers that kicked off the current wave of transformer-based AI.
The use of compute as a noun is pretty standard, see e.g. this post Algorithmic Improvement Is Probably Faster Than Scaling Now.
(Haven’t checked, but chatGPT or Bing could probably have answered both of these questions for you.)
Sorry, 2007 was a typo. I’m not sure how to interpret the ironic comment about asking an LLM, though.
It was not meant as irony or a joke. Both questions you asked are simple factual questions that you could have answered quickly on your own using an LLM or a traditional search engine.
LLMs’ answers on factual questions are not trustworthy; they are often hallucinatory.
Also, I was obviously asking you for your views, since you wrote the comment.