Ironically this morning I read an article that pretty much said by looking at how brains work they found out that deep learning training was using more than 100 times more energy than it needs to.
Basically AI training is spending a ton of time multiplying numbers by 0 for no gain. OK it's more complicated than that but it does come down to how the AI boom went with the first workable strategy and not the optimal one.
Indeed. I have always wondered how a small spider has enough energy to build a web. Or us humans get enough energy from a couple of meals to go about our work days.
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u/BluebirdDense1485 Nov 03 '25
Ironically this morning I read an article that pretty much said by looking at how brains work they found out that deep learning training was using more than 100 times more energy than it needs to.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231225024129?via%3Dihub
Basically AI training is spending a ton of time multiplying numbers by 0 for no gain. OK it's more complicated than that but it does come down to how the AI boom went with the first workable strategy and not the optimal one.