“The majority of 'computes' of computers are now devoted to massively parallel neural nets and genetic algorithms. [By 2019.]”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

Deep learning was booming by 2019, but neural-network training and inference were still a small minority of global compute cycles, which were dominated by conventional CPU workloads; genetic algorithms remained marginal.