alt Hacker NewsI have a feeling the hardware architecture for LLMs are completely wrong. There's no way hundreds of kilowatts is required for intelligence.. just in terms of the physics. Is there someone out there in the analog/neuromorphic computing world that could make these power-hungry monsters completely redundant?
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jagged-chisel • today at 1:07 AM
I have a gut feeling the particular stochastic processes we’re currently using are the wrong ones to go beyond LLMs into actual intelligence.
logicallee • today at 1:21 AM
human brain uses 20 watts.
It's more the economics of what sells that lets the power hungry monsters thrive. If you can tape out one chip design, and one gives you 1 TOPS and the other is 5 TOPS, the sales will go to the 5 TOPS because power is a downstream cost. That being said, it's only a matter of time before both chips are maximum TOPS and the only differentiator is power. My latest simulations are showing a competitive design around 70W, but I'm still confirming it and it would really be beneficial to do some data gathering tapeouts at larger nodes to feel like it's worth the risk of more expensive nodes.