I'm reading Foundation for the first time, in preparation for an upcoming review for @NerdsofaFeather , and I'm torn between 'Asimov is doing something brilliant' and 'Asimov is doing something very silly'. I really hope it's the former. I can see how it could be. But I fear it's going to end up being the latter, because in my experience reading Golden Age #SF, writing in that era doesn't tend to do the thing that needs to happen for the former.
As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires
Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and billions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability.
This is truly absurd and delightful. The "first human computed shader". You are assigned a pixel, given the equation, and need to show your handwritten manual calculation of its RGB value.
"405 different people have been computing pixels by hand for 4 days"
Naive question (maybe): Is there a definition of 'computation' akin to the mathematical definition of information (entropy/MI)? I don't mean Turing machines. e.g. something that could determine the extent to which a group of neurons/synapses are signalling versus computing? #computation#computerscience#informationtheory#machinelearning#neuroscience