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I specifically omitted "wattage" in my above comment and only said that I think it will be more efficient in "information density and inference speed". I expect
by mkaic 5y ago
I specifically omitted "wattage" in my above comment and only said that I think it will be more efficient in "information density and inference speed". I expect the first AGIs will need many kilowatts to run, but I do think in the far future (>100 years), AGI will run on less than 12W as computational ability continues to scale and we discover new and better ways of building computers.
- gizajob 5y agoSorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as "wattage" it's just power, measured in watts. For that 12 watts, the brain is extremely efficient at inference, ie. although computers can beat us a chess, a computer running on 12 watts would probably have a hard time beating Magnus Carlsen at speed-chess.
- mkaic 5y agoI mean, wattage is a noun that people use all the time to refer to an amount of power something draws. I can see your point that "efficiency" might not apply to "inference speed". What I meant to say is that AGI will be able to compute things and do cognitive tasks in many fewer seconds than humans will while also not requiring insane amounts of digital storage and/or memory to do so.