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The largest contribution physics can make to AI is energy efficiency: computers waste heat hilariously worse than brains do, and nobody has seriously tried to fix it.

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physics Fundamental physics: unification, relativity and quantum mechanics, and whether string theory is still the candidate.

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  1. Sean Carroll

    Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University

    I think this is one of the biggest things that physics can help with, and it’s an obvious kind of low-hanging fruit situation where the heat generation, the inefficiency, the waste of existing high-level computers is nowhere near the efficiency of our brains. It’s hilariously worse, and we haven’t tried to optimize that hard on that frontier.

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