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OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 years ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI.

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," he said. "It motivates us to go invest more in fusion."

Right, surely the energy intensive AIs will make the world invest in climate-friendly energy instead of just burning more fossil fuels as they always did.

Also shows how unsustainable the current neoliberal system is.

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure that I'm willing to care about what multi-billionaires think any longer.

If someone becomes a billionaire they should be ritually sacrificed for the republic by the hands of children as we all drink the billionaire blood in the starlight.

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. We shouldn’t care about these people but we need to stop them from destroying our world (which they are doing).

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 2 points 2 years ago

we need to stop them from destroying our world

Yeah that's what the ritual cannibalism is for.

[-] megopie@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Huh, wasn’t this what they also said about why it was ok for bitcoin to be using as much power as Bulgaria?

Honestly these hype bait things seem increasingly just excuses to build out more centralized computing capability.

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Very on brand for Altman.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago

Sam Altman is a clown. Nobody should trust this guy.

[-] noxfriend@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The human brain can run on a hamburger once every day or two. Investing immense amounts of energy into statistical models is only taking us further away from true, meaningful AI, not closer.

[-] tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

At least to some (large?) extent this is another red herring to distract from other and arguably more important AI topics such as copyright issues as well as legal and ethical issues imho.

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yup. That is definitely the biggest issue.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 years ago

Admitting that your tech requires fusion power is admitting that it is a fantasy.

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately the VC and also MSFT are betting the future on this kind.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Analog computers Sam, analog computers.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

I'm confident that we are not using compute resources optimally today, and I bet that the potential gains on the (immature) software AI side are a lot bigger than on the (mature) power generation side.

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