ChatGPT Burns Millions Every Day. Can Computer Scientists Make AI One Million Times More Efficient?

Running ChatGPT costs millions of dollars a day, which is why OpenAI, the company behind the viral natural-language processing artificial intelligence has started ChatGPT Plus, a $20/month subscription plan. But our brains are a million times more efficient than the GPUs, CPUs, and memory that make up ChatGPT's cloud hardware. And neuromorphic computing researchers are working hard to make the miracles that big server farms in the clouds can do today much simpler and cheaper, bringing them down to the small devices in our hands, our homes, our hospitals, and our workplaces. "We have to give up immortality," the CEO of Rain AI, Gordon Wilson, told me in a recent TechFirst podcast. "We have to give up the idea that, you know, we can save software, we can save the memory of the system after the hardware dies."