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Innovation goes in steps and iterations ;) When mp3 came out, I could just barely play a song encoded from 44.1kHz/16 bit stereo on my PC, taking almost 100% CPU. Today they can be played on a cheap microcontroller.

I like that they share their work, it can lead to something some day.

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MP3's were playable on cheap boom box stereos, and portable CD players, 20+ years ago. Such consumer devices capable of decoding MP3's appeared within less than half a decade of MP3 itself, by my recollection.

I think you are correct on that one. How long will it take to run this neural net on cheap consumer devices? It might take more than 5 years. But if all the new AI stuff is not a hype, but continues to be used, we will probably see hardware for running it on cheap circuits in a not to distant future. Maybe using a GPU+RAM like structure. Maybe the analog circuits with analog flash will win? The future will show us :)

Maybe add this URL to the calendar on today's date in 5 years an go back and reply with the answer :-D

When MP2 came out, my computer was barely able to play a song in 44.1 kHz 16 bit mono. I think bitrate was 192 kbps, but not sure.

(Later on I was so surprised MP4 didn't replace MP3!)

If you thought it was weird that they went to video with MP4, imagine my shock that the next generation they got into firearms.

That escalated quickly

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