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Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
submitted 11 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 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)

I've seen that film

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

Tbf that society was a while ago now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Flubber!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 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 11 months ago

FOSS Neuralink

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago

It'd be way easier to just grow brains instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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