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- Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/magika-ai-powered-fast-and-efficient-file-type-identification.html 251 comments
- Ultra-efficient machine learning transistor cuts AI energy use by 99% https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-machine-learning-transistor/ 3 comments
- A new study finds that when using human perception as a feedback tool, AI can help to tune out noisy audio signals more efficiently. https://news.osu.edu/ai-can-use-human-perception-to-help-tune-out-noisy-audio/ 3 comments science
- Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-traffic-lights-driving-annoying/ 20 comments worldnews
- Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-traffic-lights-driving-annoying/ 259 comments futurology
- Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-traffic-lights-driving-annoying/ 57 comments technology
- Google wants to use AI to time traffic lights more efficiently https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-wants-use-ai-time-traffic-lights-more-efficiently-2021-10-06/ 6 comments technology
- Intel is Working on Optical Chips for More Efficient AI http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nanophotoic-silicon-photonics-processor-ai,39408.html 11 comments hardware
- Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/ 3 comments programming
- Chinese hospital utilizes AI to treat patients efficiently https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/a-chinese-hospital-is-betting-big-on-artificial-intelligence-to-treat-patients/ 5 comments artificial
- UK Will Slash Civil Service Jobs and Use AI to Boost Efficiency https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/uk-will-slash-civil-service-jobs-and-use-ai-to-boost-efficiency 3 comments economics
- Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/matrix-multiplication-breakthrough-could-lead-to-faster-more-efficient-ai-models/ 32 comments technology
- MediaTek Dimensity 9300's has no efficiency cores and promises a powerful AI experience https://www.xda-developers.com/mediatek-dimensity-9300s-packs-four/ 39 comments android
- [R] Hydra Attention: Efficient Attention with Many Heads - Meta AI 2022 - 197x faster than standard attention https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07484 32 comments machinelearning
- New chip ramps up AI computing efficiency https://news.stanford.edu/2022/08/18/new-chip-ramps-ai-computing-efficiency/ 11 comments technology
- AI app to help you read your book efficiently https://rastero.io/books/explore 19 comments python
- Google is using AI to design processors that run AI more efficiently https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280321-google-is-using-ai-to-design-processors-that-run-ai-more-efficiently/ 7 comments technology
- AI Needs New Breakthroughs in Energy-Efficient Computing - EE Times https://www.eetimes.com/ai-needs-new-breakthroughs-in-energy-efficient-computing/ 6 comments hardware
- Esperanto Technologies to develop energy-efficient AI chips on RISC-V architecture http://www.embedded-computing.com/news/esperanto-technologies-to-develop-energy-efficient-ai-chips-on-risc-v-architecture 9 comments hardware
- Energy-efficient AI model could be a game changer, 50 times better efficiency with no performance hit https://www.techspot.com/news/103561-ai-researchers-rethink-how-neural-networks-work-huge.html 3 comments technology
- AlphaTensor: New Deepmind AI lets computers multiply more efficiently https://the-decoder.com/alphatensor-new-deepmind-ai-lets-computers-multiply-more-efficiently/ 3 comments artificial
- A Kaggle challenge offers 20K USD to build an AI that acquires skills more efficiently than deep learning. https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge/overview 12 comments artificial
- Intel Touts Auto AI Chip's Efficiency | EE Times https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332665 3 comments hardware
- Is the AI Juice Worth the Carbon Squeeze? / IMHO, artificial intelligence can potentially make our use of all energy sources more efficient. However, if not forced to pay for the additional CO2 pollution it produces, it will produce more CO2 #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/03/is-the-ai-juice-worth-the-carbon-squeeze/ 29 comments climate
- To Be Energy Efficient, Brains Predict Their Perceptions - Results from neural networks support the idea that brains are “prediction machines” — and that they work that way to conserve energy. Increasing transfomers (AI models like GPT-3) size can lead to Artificial General Intelligence https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-be-energy-efficient-brains-predict-their-perceptions-20211115/ 22 comments futurology
- Researchers have developed a ‘deep learning’ AI-model that can help policymakers efficiently identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures | "This is the first time that AI has been trained to identify hard-to-decarbonize buildings". https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-trained-to-identify-least-green-homes-by-cambridge-researchers 2 comments science
- Is China’s corruption-busting AI system ‘Zero Trust’ being turned off for being too efficient? https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2184857/chinas-corruption-busting-ai-system-zero-trust-being-turned-being 3 comments technology
- The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers: "An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329764.000-the-ai-boss-that-deploys-hong-kongs-subway-engineers.html#.u7foulgmvxu 578 comments technology
- The AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers: An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329764.000-the-ai-boss-that-deploys-hong-kongs-subway-engineers.html?cmpid=rss%7Cnsns%7C2012-global%7Conline-news#.u7ze2mdwjuo 12 comments technology
- A new AI program, GatorTronGPT, that functions similarly to ChatGPT, can generate doctors’ notes so well that two physicians couldn’t tell the difference. This opens the door for AI to support health care workers with improved efficiencies. https://ufhealth.org/news/2023/medical-ai-tool-from-uf-nvidia-gets-human-thumbs-up-in-first-study#for-the-media 255 comments science
- A startup called Rain Neuromorphics has built analog chips mimicking the structure of neurons and dendrites, it says are 1,000 more energy efficient for AI work than digital chips https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/03/25/1000x-more-efficient-neural-networks-building-an-artificial-brain-with-86-billion-physical-but-not-biological-neurons/?sh=7aa46c37408e 25 comments futurology
- NIST develops AI algorithm CAMEO that discovered potentially useful new material without requiring additional training from scientists. AI system could help reduce the amount of trial-and-error time scientists spend in the lab, while maximizing productivity and efficiency in their research. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/11/nist-ai-system-discovers-new-material 8 comments artificial
- CIMON-2, an improved robotic AI astronaut designed to help humans work more efficiently in space, launched to the ISS today. In 2018, the original CIMON defied astronaut Alex Gerst, accusing him of being mean and asking, “Don’t you like it here with me?” http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/meet-cimon-2-a-new-and-improved-robotic-ai-astronaut 6 comments worldnews
- AI just got 100-fold more energy efficient. Using 100-fold less energy than current technologies, the device can crunch large amounts of data and perform artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in real time without beaming data to the cloud for analysis https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/10/ai-just-got-100-fold-more-energy-efficient/ 24 comments science
- Microchips that mimic the human brain could make AI far more energy efficient | Neuromorphic chips could cut the power demands of digital assistants and other devices by orders of magnitude https://www.science.org/content/article/microchips-mimic-human-brain-could-make-ai-far-more-energy-efficient 4 comments science
- Deep-learning algorithms could be the key to efficient and non-invasive dementia detection. A new AI facial-screening method was able to differentiate the faces of dementia patients from non-dementia patients with over 87% sensitivity and 92% accuracy. https://www.aging-us.com/article/202545/text 24 comments science
- CIMON-2, an improved robotic AI astronaut designed to help humans work more efficiently in space, launched to the ISS today. In 2018, the original CIMON defied astronaut Alex Gerst, accusing him of being mean and asking, “Don’t you like it here with me?” It wasn’t quite HAL 9000 bizarre, but still. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/meet-cimon-2-a-new-and-improved-robotic-ai-astronaut 13 comments space
- IBM Scientists Demonstrate In-memory Computing with 1 Million Devices for Applications in AI - “When compared to state-of-the-art classical computers, this prototype technology is expected to yield 200x improvements in both speed and energy efficiency” https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/10/ibm-scientists-demonstrate-memory-computing-1-million-devices-applications-ai/ 8 comments technology
- "Google's AI Now Creates Code Better Than its Creators." The company recently announced that the AI had duplicated itself with a more efficient code https://interestingengineering.com/googles-ai-now-creates-code-better-than-its-creators 37 comments technology
- Scientists developed a microscope that uses AI in order to locate cancer cells more efficiently. The device uses photonic time stretch and deep learning to analyze 36 million images every second without damaging the blood samples http://sciencenewsjournal.com/artificial-intelligence-helps-find-cancer-cells/ 278 comments science