{"id":196430,"date":"2024-09-20T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/brains-could-help-solve-a-fundamental-problem-in-computer-engineering"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:26:07","slug":"brains-could-help-solve-a-fundamental-problem-in-computer-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/brains-could-help-solve-a-fundamental-problem-in-computer-engineering","title":{"rendered":"Brains Could Help Solve a Fundamental Problem in Computer Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brains-could-help-solve-a-fundamental-problem-in-computer-engineering2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, these technological limitations have become far more pressing. Deep neural networks have radically expanded the limits of artificial intelligence\u2014but they have also created a monstrous demand for computational resources, and these resources present an enormous financial and environmental burden. Training GPT-3, a text predictor so accurate that it easily tricks people into thinking its words were written by a human, costs $4.6 million and emits a sobering volume of carbon dioxide\u2014as much as 1,300 cars, according to Boahen.<\/p>\n<p>With the free time afforded by the pandemic, Boahen, who is faculty affiliate at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), applied himself single mindedly to this problem. \u201cEvery 10 years, I realize some blind spot that I have or some dogma that I\u2019ve accepted,\u201d he says. \u201cI call it \u2018raising my consciousness.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time around, raising his consciousness meant looking toward dendrites, the spindly protrusions that neurons use to detect signals, for a completely novel way of thinking about computer chips. And, as he writes in Nature, he thinks he\u2019s figured out how to make chips so efficient that the enormous GPT-3 language prediction neural network could one day be run on a cell phone. Just as Feynman posited the \u201cquantum supremacy\u201d of quantum computers over traditional computers, Boahen wants to work toward a \u201cneural supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, these technological limitations have become far more pressing. Deep neural networks have radically expanded the limits of artificial intelligence\u2014but they have also created a monstrous demand for computational resources, and these resources present an enormous financial and environmental burden. Training GPT-3, a text predictor so accurate that it easily tricks people into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,1512,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}