{"id":217250,"date":"2025-07-05T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-can-ai-be-more-energy-efficient-researchers-look-to-human-brain-for-inspiration"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:06:07","slug":"how-can-ai-be-more-energy-efficient-researchers-look-to-human-brain-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-can-ai-be-more-energy-efficient-researchers-look-to-human-brain-for-inspiration","title":{"rendered":"How can AI be more energy efficient? Researchers look to human brain for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-can-ai-be-more-energy-efficient-researchers-look-to-human-brain-for-inspiration.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/20\/1116327\/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">estimated<\/a> it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why University at Buffalo researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture that can support the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing in the world that\u2019s as efficient as our brain\u2014it\u2019s evolved to maximize the storage and processing of information and minimize energy usage,\u201d says Sambandamurthy Ganapathy, Ph.D., professor in the UB Department of Physics and associate dean for research in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s estimated it can take an AI model over 6,000 joules of energy to generate a single text response. By comparison, your brain needs just 20 joules every second to keep you alive and cognitive. That\u2019s why University at Buffalo researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to develop computing architecture that can support [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217250","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}