AI Reports · MIT FutureTech · 2026-10-17 · Blog / commentary
How can we counter the increased demand for computation? Neil Thompson interviewed by Synced Neil Thompson discusses why Deep Learning's economic and environmental footprints are growing worryingly fa
Neil Thompson of MIT CSAIL says the computing power required by deep learning is growing unsustainably fast as models such as GPT-3 scale up. His paper The Computational Limits of Deep Learning analyzes 1,058 research papers and argues that deep learning is computationally expensive by design rather than by accident.