Kardashev index
0.726
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view6 years ago
2020-05-28
Scaling and Few-Shot Learning
GPT-3 handles many language tasks from a prompt and a few examples, and AlphaFold 2 shows deep learning's breakthrough potential in scientific research.
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7.91Bpeople
1/1 of today
1.8×10¹³W
1/1 of today
3.2×10¹⁰floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/3 of today
0.03 seconds
Comparable to today
39,897km/h
Comparable to today
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Google's Sycamore processor outperforms classical supercomputers on a specific sampling task. Source
China's three major carriers launch 5G plans, beginning commercial 5G service. Source
Language models retrieve external documents before answering, so knowledge can come from an updatable library rather than only from what was memorized in training. Source
A 175-billion-parameter model demonstrates few-shot learning. Source
DDPM generates high-quality images by gradually removing noise, laying key groundwork for later diffusion-based image tools. Source
The BeiDou satellite navigation system begins providing worldwide service. Source
Predicts protein structures with near-experimental accuracy at CASP14. Source
The UK authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first mRNA vaccine approved for use. Source
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