From Bytes
to Brains:
Charting the Meteoric Rise of Machine Learning
Machine learning models like those used to build ChatGPT became popular in 2023. However, few people realize the amount of computing power suddenly devoted to training these models. To put things into context, it would take your laptop one year to train all the models used from 1950 to 2015, but it would take the same laptop 67,360 years to train the machine learning
models of 2023.
