"It's worth clarifying a few things early here. First, NorthPole does nothing to help the energy demand in training a neural network; it's purely designed for e

"It's worth clarifying a few things early here. First, NorthPole does nothing to help the energy demand in training a neural network; it's purely designed for execution. Second, it is not a general AI processor; it's specifically designed for inference-focused neural networks. As noted above, inferences include things like figuring out the contents of an image or audio clip so they have a large range of uses, but this chip may do you any good if your needs include running a large language model because they're too large to fit in the hardware." [0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/ibm-has-made-a-new-highly-efficient-ai-processor/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/ibm-has-made-a-new-h...