Submitted 13 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by mimicking the human brain.
The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, developed a form of hafnium oxide that acts as a highly stable, low‑energy ‘memristor’ — a component designed to mimic the efficient way neurons are connected in the brain.
I was half-expecting that new material to be hubris.
Hubrinium.
could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware
Decreasing the cost of using a resource almost always results in more use of that resource.
Laboratory tests showed the devices could reliably endure tens of thousands of switching cycles
That’s not very many when GPUs perform trillions of operations per second.
Cool tech but very much in infancy. Good for them on getting a hype article but this in no way affects anything about computing tofay.
I feel like memristors have been a buzzword for like 20 years now… am I wrong? Is it for real this time?
Shooting a large rocket full of tech bros directly in to the sun will have a similar effect.
Shooting a rocket directly into the sun would waste as much energy as current AI data centers, because it would have to shed all the earth’s momentum.
Better to just use a volcano.
We can sell tickets for people to take turns pushing. A dollar per participant sounds reasonable to me.
Oh great, now we’re gonna start polluting the sun? Can’t we contain our garbage to a single planet?
All of the things you’d be polluting the sun with are already there.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah. I can believe that forces within the human brain could help AI reduce it’s power consumption.
Step 1) Turn off AI.
Step 2) There is no step 2.
At least, that’s what my brain thought.