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Re:It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn by oh_sigh on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:43PM (#25587139)
Yeah but your clone() function is very wasteful, and we can't stick 1 million of you in a dark room that just looks at people's google searches and figures out what they're really going for.

And it's not the whole picture to say the brain only uses 15 watts - when there's all sorts of necessary support systems that it couldn't run without. So it's closer to 100 watts (2000kcal/day)

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Re:It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn by acdc4life on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:07AM (#25589792)
Not Google search, but many companies are exploiting cheap labor over seas for different industrial use cases because our algos suck. Not just in manufacturing, there are tech companies outsourcing labeled data for tasks like object detection (Hive.ai as anvexample). Whether it makes you depressed or not, humans are cheaper than algorithms, and I don’t see that changing unless we abandon the current paradigm for ai/ml.
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