just_thisGuy t1_j8edpr1 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:19 PM

Reply to comment by space_troubadour in Anthropic's Jack Clark on AI progress by Impressive-Injury-91

No, there are degrees of exponential https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_of_a_polynomial and if you start with one does not mean you are always using the same degree. The point he is making is the degree is increasing.

[deleted] t1_j8f5bq9 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 9:18 PM

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lastmonky t1_j8jt76c wrote on February 14, 2023 at 8:51 PM

That is power law growth, exponential growth is ae^bx. Where a and b are constants, e is eulars number and x is the variable.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth