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wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I think we’re at a point we’re the hardware right now does not fit with the algorithm being used. Since they take so much power due to our computers being digital. Having a transistor only capable of holding 2 state (0V or 5V usually) is eneffecient. The heat add up as you multiply especially with LLMs. There is a push to go back to analog where a transistor acts more on a range 0 - 5v. Which in theory could store more information or directly represent what LLM runs on (floating point). For more context 1 float tends to be 32bits. 1 bit is 1 transistor so 1 float = 32 transistor. While an analog transistor could be 1 float = 1 analog transistor.

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