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Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The human brain uses about 20W. Maybe AI needs to be more efficient instead?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Perfect let's use human brains as CPUs then. Not the whole brain just the unused bits.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've seen that film

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's what matrix would've been if the studios didn't think people would too dumb to get it, so we ended with the nonsense about batteries.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They also thought we wouldn't understand how Switch could be a woman in the matrix but a man in the real world. So they just made the character a butch woman because apparently that's easier somehow. So many little changes like this were made.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy fuck now her name makes so much more sense. God dammit, why are we so fucking stuck up as a society that we couldn’t even keep that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tbf that society was a while ago now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's gotten better, and honestly they oversimplify even more today. For some reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Nah, that would absolutely not be something the studio would have a problem with these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Flubber!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

We use all of our brain. Well, some of us try to anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would love it (if there exists a FOSS variant of that) imagine being able to run a LLM, or even LAM in your head,

wait…

🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

FOSS Neuralink

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That would require a revolutionary discovery in material science and hardware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And yet we have brains. This brute force approach to machine learning is quite effective but has problems scaling. So, new energy sources or new thinking?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We just run the AI for a gazillion epochs and then it's ~~overfitted~~ evolved intelligence. Thanks Darwin we did it again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It'd be way easier to just grow brains instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

We invented computers to do things human brains either couldn't do, or couldn't do fast enough.