Silicon Darwinism: Why Scarcity Is the Source of True Intelligence

The current trend in AI development wrongly equates intelligence with size, leading to massive, resource-intensive models that are economically and environmentally costly. This approach contrasts sharply with highly efficient intelligent systems like the human brain or the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which achieve remarkable feats under extreme resource constraints. Scarcity and limitation should be viewed as drivers of true intelligence, forcing the development of more elegant and resilient solutions. Techniques like model quantization and knowledge distillation enable powerful AI on edge devices (TinyML), demonstrating that efficiency, not scale, is the key to practical and widespread AI application.