The Emerging Technologies and Collective Wisdom project (tesaco.fr), led by Daniel Andler and hosted by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, is publishing a series of video hearings on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics.

Hearing of Simon Thorpe, Emeritus Research Director at CNRS

Part One of the Hearing: The Energy Cost of AI Algorithms

[00:00] Energy cost of AI algorithms
[05:40] The brain’s secret: spike order coding!
[07:00] Debate: Yann LeCun (Meta) vs. Bill Dally (Nvidia)
[08:17] Transmitting 20 bits of information with 1M neurons
[10:45] Misconception 1: Neuronal firing rate is important
[12:15] Misconception 2: The brain is highly active
[16:45] Summary of the energy costs at stake
[18:25] The Terrabrain project
[22:45] An innovative startup using unary neurons
[26:00] When ChatGPT finds relevant old articles
[27:30] A message for Geoff Hinton
[30:00] Current AI models are suicidal for the planet