Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
"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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Or we could stop this ridiculous llm “ai” trend and move towards sustainable living like our hyper-waste society
These comments often indicate a lack of understanding about ai.
Ml algorithms have been in use for nearly 50 years. They certainly become much more common since about 2012, particularly with the development of CUDA, It’s not just some new trend or buzz word.
Rather, what we starting to see are the fruits of our labour. There are so many really hard problems that just cannot be solved with deductive reasoning.
It's simultaneously possible to realize that something is useful while also recognizing the damage that its trend is causing from a sustainability standpoint, and that neither realization particularly demonstrates a lack of understanding about AI.
Humans very rarely take sustainability into account when money can be made.
The lack of knowledge comes from thinking the damage is outpacing it's usefulness. It simply isn't.
Highly debatable
All it costs is power, one of the easiest things to make sustainable until we can make a computer that runs on beans.
AI is already too useful to give up, it's not "ridiculous"
Why is it ridiculous?
At this point, there are no protections in place to make sure that an eventual general AI is actually used to benefit people.
So we're going to spend a bunch of time, effort, and fuel on tools that will just further entrench all the worst things about our society.
AI is cool, and there's a lot of promise, but until we've revamped what we expect from our governments and corporations, it's going to be a dystopian future.
AI is not useless, it can do a lot of things well enough to be a good tool. The major problem tho is that it's limited usefulness doesn't justify the huge amounts of power consumption.
I think that it needs power optimisations, discarding a useful tool is not wise IMO.