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Everyone, especially people working in this area, know that data and energy are the huge costs of current generation AI, so many people are working to make those things better. Neurosymbolic methods will give more AI bang for fewer energy bucks. Lots of work is being done to make all flavors of DNN more compute-efficient. It's a very good bet that those efforts will produce good results within 5-10 years. That's eternity in VC time, of course (so those guys can't even think about it), but comparable to the time to put, say, nuclear generation online. I suggest that you put some effort into following those efforts: (a) to get far more value from orders-of-magnitude less training data (like human learning does), and (b) to do functionally the same neural net computations with significantly less energy (maybe orders of magnitude, maybe not). This is stuff that will change the nature of the game. Everyone is currently playing one game, and soon it will become clear that there is a different game to be played. Get in front of it. Cheers, Ben

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