AI Slop

AI is hated by many, especially the young, don't try to feed them "AI Slop"

But this IEEE Spectrum article was interesting:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-neurons-on-silicon-chips

In this case, the grad student was sloppy by not connecting the substrate to ground and it may lead to a new way to implement AI that uses less power. So sometimes it's good to make mistakes - so this AI sloppiness might be good, at least for the environment :)

It still boggles my mind that power used is a figure of merit embraced by the AI industry:

https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/04/data-centers.html

It's like the Supermen from the planet Bizarro have taken over the tech leadership of Earth ! Why is using more power better ? It's not but apparently that's the yardstick they use :(

It's also interesting that this new potentially power saving AI work is being done at a university in Singapore. Singapore has (unlike the current US administration) decided to embrace academia and also non-Singaporean professors, students and ideas. The chips resulting from this new AI concept may still be fabbed in Taiwan, but they might NOT be sold by Nvidia.

BTW, the author is NOT the same Mario Lanza whose 1950s voice was reputed to rival that of Caruso :)