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Re:No Brainer (2015) by sbierwagen on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:51PM (#20076536)
Or EfficientNet, SOTA performance with a tenth of the compute: http://ai.googleblog.com/2019/05/efficientnet-improving-accu...

You would hope the human brain would be pretty efficient, given the selection pressure but apparently not.

Re:No Brainer (2015) by jsharf on Sunday June 02, 2019 @02:32PM (#20077139)
I mean, it's pretty incredible and coincidental that we evolved brains this sophisticated in the first place, out of a totally random process with selective pressure. After 13 billion years, I mean I think it's reasonable progress, but I wouldn't expect SOTA efficiency. Once you have intelligence, the evolutionary benefits are huge. There's all of a sudden not as much pressure to be efficient (well there was, for like 100,000 years, but then we invented fire and could cook, and that made getting energy/nutrition more efficient. FYI, at this point I'm just quoting from the book Sapiens)