AI without computers - Advanced Science News

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is ubiquitous and integrated into almost any field or application. Progress made over the last few decades has been astounding, with achievements--such as DeepMind's AlphaGo defeating the world's foremost Go player in 2016 and the application of LinearFold to predict the secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA sequence in just 26 seconds--demonstrating the ever-growing capabilities of these systems. There is a caveat though; running AI requires large amounts of energy and data, and computer hardware can't keep up. Integrated circuit chips are reaching capacity even as structures on the chips and circuit components become smaller. There is a limit to how far we can physically take this.