DARPA bets on ‘energy calculus’ to tame AI’s power appetite
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The Pentagon's research agency is funding university teams to cut and predict how much electricity machine learning consumes DARPA is spending real money on a problem most AI companies would rather not discuss: their models eat electricity at an alarming rate. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has backed a $1.83 million project, led by the University of Michigan, that aims to build a mathematical toolkit for squeezing waste out of every stage of AI. The research team believes the approach could potentially cut energy use by as much as 50%. The flagship effort is called E-CALC.
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