Artificial Intelligence is promising to change the way that people around the world live their lives.
But the groundbreaking technology still has plenty of obstacles standing in the way of what proponents think it can be.
And now this startup’s “solution” to one of AI’s biggest problems will have you ready to move off-grid.
AI platforms are already facing an existential threat
OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, was one of the first of what has become many AI chatbots used by internet users the world over.
The service gives users the ability to have a conversation with the program and ask it questions about nearly any topic they can think of – it’s basically a conversational version of a search engine, like Google, as the program merely searches the internet for answers to your questions and provides the answers it finds, making its left-wing bias fully apparent.
According to Earth.org, the chatbot has been used by over 100 million people, and that’s barely scratching the surface of the number of people who have tried other AI chatbots as well.
Now, these chatbots are being integrated into a variety of online products and services.
There’s one thing that could slow this explosion down.
The average query on ChatGPT uses nearly 10-times more energy than a mere Google search.
According to the International Energy Agency, this will result in skyrocketing energy use, and it threatens to push America’s electrical grids to the brink.
But there’s one company that’s working on a solution.
And it’s creepy.
Lab-grown brains trained with dopamine as a reward
FinalSpark is a Swiss technology firm that is promising to solve the AI energy demands with a new form of computing.
The firm’s “wetware computing” is a project that they say will use a bioprocessing platform that depends on lab-grown brains.
The group is creating what they call organoids from stem cells.
These organoids are three-dimensional clusters that can assemble themselves into larger structures that can replicate the natural shape and function of organs found in humans and other living organisms.
The network of synthetic organs works like a computer where each organ sends and receives signals through their network of neurons.
According to SCNR, researchers have trained the lab-grown brains with dopamine to “reward the network” when things are done correctly.
FinalSpark says that their new technology will solve the energy consumption problem with AI and usher in the next big leap forward.
“It’s going to have the same functionality, but it’s not going to have any ecological impact. . .”
The firm says, “one of the biggest advantages of biological computing is that neurons compute information with much less energy than digital computers.”
They estimate that it will use one million times less energy than modern-day digital processors.
Compared to “the best computers currently in use” like Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Frontier, the human brain uses 10-20 watts to achieve the same speed as Frontier using 21 megawatts.
And the brain has a thousand times more space for memory.
The CEO of FinalSpark, Dr. Fred Jordan, says that if there’s any chance for future development of AI their “wetware computing” is necessary.
“This is the future because there is no other possible future. We are running to a wall with the power consumption from new AI systems,” he said adding “it’s not sustainable at all.”
Dr. Jordan says that end-users, or the average consumer, will not notice a “striking” difference in their experience.
“It’s going to have the same functionality, but it’s not going to have any ecological impact,” he said.
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