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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] 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