Technology Quarterly | Computing hardware
The cost of training machines is becoming a problem
Increased complexity and competition are part of it
THE FUNDAMENTAL assumption of the computing industry is that number-crunching gets cheaper all the time. Moore’s law, the industry’s master metronome, predicts that the number of components that can be squeezed onto a microchip of a given size—and thus, loosely, the amount of computational power available at a given cost—doubles every two years.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Machine, learning”
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