Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Trick That Cuts Power Use 100x

The dirty secret of the current AI boom is not what the chatbots say — it is how much electricity they swallow to say it.

Most of the AI you have heard about — large language models, image generators, the vision systems inside robots — runs on neural networks.

Symbolic AI is the older tradition, the kind that dominated the field for decades before deep learning took over.

The specific work driving the latest headlines comes from the laboratory of Matthias Scheutz at Tufts University in the United States.

The numbers they reported are striking.