It doesn't matter how many instances were running. All that matters is the wall clock time and the cost.

The fact that they don't disclose the cost is a clue that it's probably outrageous today. But costs are coming down fast. And hiring a team of these guys isn't exactly cheap either.

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zeroonetwothree 5 days ago | parent [-]

Human teams are limited to three people. So why doesn’t it matter how many instances they used?

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kenjackson 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is what the argument is? 10 years ago if you said you could do this with every computer on the planet and every computer scientist focused on trying to create the code to do this I would’ve given you absurd odds against it getting 12 problems right on ICPC. 10 years ago it couldn’t even reliably parse the question statement.

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modeless 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Human brains and cloud instances are not remotely equivalent. What you can compare on an equivalent basis is cost.

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LunaSea 5 days ago | parent [-]

Or energy usage.

	▲	modeless 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Cost is inclusive of energy and a lot more. It's a better metric.

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ben_w 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

All instances of any given model are kinda the same, for lack of a better word, "person": same knowledge, same skills, same failings.

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warkdarrior 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I bet with human teams it'll take longer to solve a problem the more people you have on the team.