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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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TSU 101: An Entirely New Type of Computing Hardware to run AI models (extropic.ai)

submitted 5 months ago by PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de to c/artificial_intel@lemmy.ml

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Extropic is building an entirely new type of computing hardware that is designed from the ground up to be incredibly energy efficient at running generative AI models. We call our new type of hardware the thermodynamic sampling unit, or TSU.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would love some of these for Monte Carlo simulations

If they have a reasonable price I think there’s big opportunity here

[–] PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Monte Carlo to compute the digits of pi to arbitrary precision? Or some more advanced uses?

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Advanced uses. I already know pi is 3ish.

[–] PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

What other kind of advanced uses are there?

[–] Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

Makes sense to create hardware dedicated to AI models. Especially since it will make them run faster and it will cut down on the power requirements for datacenters.

It's too bad they're slightly straying from the current acronyms. I'll have to remember to call them TSUs instead of TPUs.