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High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.
(www.caltech.edu)
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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That's not modest. AI hardware requirements are just crazy.
For an individual yes. But for an institution? No.
I mean, "modest" may be too strong a word, but a 2080 TI-ish workstation is not particularly exorbitant in the research space. Especially considering the insane dataset size (years of noisy, raw space telescope data) they’re processing here.
Also that’s not always true. Some “AI” models, especially oldschool ones, function fine on old CPUs. There are also efforts (like bitnet) to get larger ones fast cheaply.