I'd love to see more algorithmic efficiency in ML. But hasn't ML been going in the other direction for at least a decade now? It seems to me that it's been goin

I'd love to see more algorithmic efficiency in ML. But hasn't ML been going in the other direction for at least a decade now? It seems to me that it's been going aggressively towards brute force algorithms. Specifically, figuring out how to do as much matrix multiplication as possible.