[Video Release] Energy Cost of AI Algorithms, TESaCo Hearing of Simon Thorpe (Part 1)

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