What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club
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From the show’s notesThis week’s Paper Club is all about alternative compute.
Modern AI has been shaped by a tight coupling between transformers, backpropagation, and GPUs. But as compute efficiency starts to plateau, there may be very different ways to build the machines that come next.
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We explore what AI compute could look like beyond conventional digital hardware through optical systems that use light to perform computation, neuromorphic architectures inspired by the brain, and experiments teaching living brain cells to play Doom.
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