— with a little help from AI.
I call nullshit.
Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence
Submitted 3 weeks ago by 33550336@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://bigthink.com/the-future/analog-computing-resurgence/
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As cool as it sound at a glance, I fail to see the case they’re trying to build.
And of course, they have to sprinkle a little AI on it.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
33550336@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is not analog computing by no means
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s both kinds of digital
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
/joke
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
No, it isn’t. There’s just a passing interest in retro technology
It’ll pass
sploosh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
New, programmable analog chips that perform basic sound processing aren’t retro. The article is worth reading.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or, if you can’t read, Veritasium did a video: youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This has nothing to do with retro technology. This is about thinking “is using binary really the most efficient way to run every computation we need to do?”, which is really relevant today.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Is it? Binary is not a “analog” vs “digital” thing. “Binary” existed in analog computing for a couple of centuries at least before the concept of “digital“ even existed.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
@retrolemmyusername…hm…
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I would like more something like a GPU to become normal, except it’d be an analog unit for kinds of computation vastly more efficient this way, where you don’t need determinism. Some trigonometry and signal processing, perhaps even some of 3d graphics.
randomblock1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t there already a special low-power part of phone chips designed to listen for wake words?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Definitly exciting for RF to me. Be it 5g, wifi, etc. Hopefully we can get hispeed proccessing for cheaper. Right now the cheapest rf proccessing 5g module ive seen promise in is the bladerf fpga.
FishFace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Relating this to carbon emissions is absurd. Your phone’s maximum power consumption is about 25W, of which sensors are a tiny, minuscule fraction. Running your phone at 25W for an entire year would allow you to drive a typical petrol car doing 40mpg for 250 miles on the same energy budget.
Reducing sensor power usage is good, but not for this reason.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
There is a connection, but I don’t think it’s a satisfying one.
There’s some thought that the weights behind neural networks would take less power consumption if they were on analog chips. So yeah, it’s for LLMs to get bigger. Reducing CO2 emissions by not doing LLM slop is apparently off the table.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not to be argumentative, but has this ever been something the consumer market has done with an emerging “core” technology? I don’t see how this was ever realistically on the table.
AI slop is an unfortunate fact of life at this point. If it’s inevitable, we may as well make it as not terrible as possible.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is how I understood it too.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
*gasoline or diesel. You cannot use petroleum as it needs to be refined.
gnu@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Petrol and gasoline are the same thing, it’s just different terminology.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
‘Petrol’ is british for gasoline. No one will be driving around on Vaseline.
FishFace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/petrol