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Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[–] SuperIce 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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?

[–] Linkerbaan 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] fidodo 1 points 1 year ago

It'd be way easier to just grow brains instead