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Spring into STEM | The Greedy AI | Virtual Lecture Series

17 March 2023, 12:00 pm–12:30 pm

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Join EEE researcher Dan Mannion as he explores the issue of power consumption within today’s machine learning hardware and discusses how researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to tackle this issue.

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All

Availability

Yes

Cost

£0.00

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Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE)

As much as we love them, computers are quick to make us feel slow. Whether it’s ChatGPT’s effortless ability correct your writing, or that chess AI beating you more times than you would like to admit – it seems like we’ve lost the battle. But fortunately for us, perhaps not the war…

Your secret weapon is efficiency. You are capable of running the human body autonomously – an incredibly complex task – whilst also carrying out your day to day lives with your brain operating at the power consumption of a light bulb. Roughly.

In this lightning lecture entitled 'The Greedy AI: Exploring an Artificial Intelligence's insatiable appetite for power', Dan will explore the issue of power consumption within today’s machine learning hardware and discuss how researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to tackle this issue. Welcome to neuromorphic engineering.

Format: 15minutes talk / 15minutes Q&A - we particularly welcome interested members of the public with an interest in this topic to join. 
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About the Speaker

Daniel Mannion

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow

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