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Comment by danbruc

There are some things that are sped up by a very large factor, easily over 1000000x.

I will need an example for this, what can I achieve with a large language model in ten seconds that I can not do on my own in one and a half years [1]? Or one hour vs 568 years?

The unsolved math problems are one thing that came to my mind, after all no human could solve them. But Navier-Stokes took 10,000 agents for 88 hours, that are 500 years [1] for one human without any speed-up. Does not sound unreasonable to me that a human could have solved it if they could invest 500 years on it.

The other hundreds of math problems took on average 3 hours, with a speed-up of a million that would be 1,704 years [1] for one human.

[1] Assuming 220 working days per year, 8 hours per day.

parent danbruc 6 days ago

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