So…
This is not analog computing by no means
It’s both kinds of digital
How about
?I want to hear this in action. I bet it’s satisfying af
yep, this is it
/joke
Relating this to carbon emissions is absurd. Your phone’s maximum power consumption is about 25W, of which sensors are a tiny, minuscule fraction. Running your phone at 25W for an entire year would allow you to drive a typical petrol car doing 40mpg for 250 miles on the same energy budget.
Reducing sensor power usage is good, but not for this reason.
There is a connection, but I don’t think it’s a satisfying one.
There’s some thought that neural networks would take less power consumption if they were on analog chips. So yeah, it’s for LLMs to get bigger. Reducing CO2 emissions by not doing LLM slop is apparently off the table.
Reducing CO2 emissions by not doing LLM slop is apparently off the table.
Not to be argumentative, but has this ever been something the consumer market has done with an emerging “core” technology? I don’t see how this was ever realistically on the table.
AI slop is an unfortunate fact of life at this point. If it’s inevitable, we may as well make it as not terrible as possible.
Nothing inevitable about it. People aren’t going to be running local models en masse; that will be about as popular as self-hosting Internet services. People are largely reliant on centralized datacenter models, and those will shut down as the bubble pops.
This is how I understood it too.
*gasoline or diesel. You cannot use petroleum as it needs to be refined.
‘Petrol’ is british for gasoline. No one will be driving around on Vaseline.
Isn’t there already a special low-power part of phone chips designed to listen for wake words?
As cool as it sound at a glance, I fail to see the case they’re trying to build.
And of course, they have to sprinkle a little AI on it.
