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Re:It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn by trthomps on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:54PM (#25587254)
You want your mind to really be blown, your brain manages to do everything it does on around 20W, even less than that mac mini.
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Re:It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn by visarga on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:11PM (#25587953)
The brain is not just more efficient, it also builds itself. The hardware necessary to run a neural net is given. Maybe the rigors of self replication are what's missing from AI.
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