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AI will accelerate progress on measurable software research tasks
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It seems likely that downstream of AI we'll soon see a strong acceleration in progress on publicly salient software R&D tasks that are easy to hill climb on (e.g., clear metric, short feedback loops). This is worth tracking.
vvvincent_c@vvvincent_cSep 5
wow someone has claimed to get a 46% improvement on nanogpt speedrun (73.9 -> 39.9s). this would be equivalent to the past ~9 months of speedups in the five days the author spent on this PR. on a skim, there are some contentious changes, but none are obviously against the rules https://t.co/RVARgKGFEm