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AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence

Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge

They don't even do statistical analysis. If they did, they would be able to put confidence limits on their classifications at least.

The power issue is a serious one. Last year we published a "hand-crafted" method for stereo vision for a gardening robot that was perhaps not quite as accurate as some deep learning methods, but ran happily on a Raspberry Pi, as opposed to a powerful laptop with GPU. The accuracy was good enough for the purpose of the robot not running into trees.

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