Beware of headlines touting impossible AI benefits, analysts warn

Beware of headlines touting impossible AI benefits, analysts warn

It’s no big deal, you’d think, that researchers have found a way to reduce the computing requirements for one of the many steps involved in training an AI model to help robots manipulate simple geometric objects. Yet such is the concern about the rising cost of powering data centers for AI applications that this one small and largely unremarkable finding prompted breathless headlines such as “100x Less Power: The Breakthrough That Could Solve AI…