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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] 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