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In the hypothetical, overall AI progress would be about 2.5 times faster: algorithmic progress would advance five times faster while compute continued at its usual rate.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“Basically, things would be going like 2.5x faster where the algorithms would be advancing at 5x speed,”
“but the compute is still stuck at the usual speed.”Play from 25:29Report a misattribution
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