The Hardware Lottery - The Hardware Lottery .jpg?v=1586843526885) ## Metadata - Author: **The Hardware Lottery** - Full Title: The Hardware Lottery - Category: #articles - URL: https://hardwarelottery.github.io/ ## Highlights - Closer collaboration has centered on a wave of new generation hardware that is “domain specific” to optimize for commercial use cases of deep neural networks ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgyn0v8a1kz0sdnh3gf7ajz8)) - there are early warning signs that the path to true artificial intelligence may require an entirely different combination of algorithm, hardware and software ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgyn1kwn7k8y6gq0p4hjfmzy)) - machine learning researchers mostly ignore hardware despite the role it plays in determining what ideas succeed ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgyn290jsw0jtk1061v830c3)) - The Connection Machine was one of the few examples of hardware that deviated from general purpose cpus in the 1980s/90s. Thinking Machines ultimately went bankrupt after inital funding from DARPA dried up. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgyp271h70hhwsbm63tfr2af)) - Human brains despite their complexity remain extremely energy efficient. Our brain has over 85 billion neurons but runs on the energy equivalent of an electric shaver ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hgyp4gp08a5gj18b7q4xesph))