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Spivak on Oct 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

Maybe but you're discounting the energy required to send those 99% of pixels over the network. Just because it's not your CPU doesn't mean it's not doing work.

datameta on Oct 9, 2020 [–]

Indeed, in the case of LTE comms and mobile chips the difference in power usage is greater than six orders of magnitude.

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