Consider a Kitten (Just for Fun)
This NIPU (natural intelligence processing unit) runs on milliwatts of power, and yet on many important tasks, outlasts and outperforms GPUs. She does this with far lower costs in installation, training, power and cooling.
This shaggy, feral girl showed up at one of our founders' house's looking for dinner. The lucky beast got a home. She has displayed natural intelligence algorithms that sometimes figure in our pitch for various aspects of what we do.
At the tender age of perhaps 6 weeks old, and within 24 hours of arrival, she had mastered tasks in
Identification of important new items such as toys, people, food dishes, the litter box,
Navigation around an entirely new environment, even learning to climb up and jump down from the big comfy bed, just for fun, and
Communication using only a single cycle of reinforcement learning to understand that the human word "sit" means if you sit down, you get your dinner.
She has sat down for her dinner, politely and on command, every night since.
Sure, we know this was helped by some interspecies commonalities and algorithms refined over thousands of years of evolution. But those algorithms were running in a provably novel environment, on a brain the size of a peanut, and with a power budget best measured in milliwatts. We don't understand all of her algorithms, but we think they set a SWaP and autonomy goal to strive for.