Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

Optimizing power consumption? Why?!

The human brain uses about 20W. Maybe AI needs to be more efficient instead?

If only we could convert empty hype into energy.

So AI can't exist without stealing people's content and it can't exist without using too much energy. Why does it exist then?

How about an efficiency breakthrough instead? Our brains just need a meal and can recognize a face without looking at billions of others first.

Great right from coin miners to the "AI" fad. Tons of carbon shot into the sky and for what? A more unequal society on both counts.

I heard that the human body can produce more bioelectricity than a battery

Didn't CERN open a portal to hell recently, can't we just steal their power? What are they using it for what could go wrong?

So is AI the new Blockchain?

Or we could stop this ridiculous llm “ai” trend and move towards sustainable living like our hyper-waste society

Exactly. This is why the AI hype train is overblown. Stop shoving "AI" everywhere when they know it'll cost a lot in electricity.

The real path forwards with AI will be specialized super advanced models costing hundreds per run (business use case) and/or locally run AI using NPUs, especially the latter.

We must disassemble the solar system and make paperclips AI server farms

So much for hoping ai was going to solve energy breakthroughs.

I love when people invent something then complain about how dangerous it is. It really hits you in the feels.

It's called nuclear energy. It was discovered in 1932 and properly harnessed with an effective reactor that consumes both radioactive material and waste (CANDU) in 1950's/1960's and the newest CANDU reactors are some of the safest and most efficient energy generation in the world.

Pretending like there needs to be a larger investment into something like cold fusion in order to run these computers is incredibly dishonest or presenting a clear hole in education coverage. (The DoE should still work on researching cold fusion, but not because of this.)

Just don't forget the BIG circuit breakers.
Some day we are going to need them.

Nvidia Execs: Did you say the price of GPUs should go up?

Yes we will build a massive nursing home and use the old people as batteries.

OH NO, AI IS THE BLOCKCHAIN.

dude think about this stuff before you open the floodgates bro

So why won't he use the AI to discover one?

The sun gives us free energy. Is he aware of that?

Stop mining bitcoin.

Is the answer people? I think I’ve seen this movie before.

Subsidize retrofitting the entire nation with solar and invert it back into the grid

Might be because it's a LLM not an AI and requires massive amounts of data to be funneled into it to actually work. My admittedly limited understanding of it makes it seem like it's just another buzzword for things like neural networks and machine learning.

The positive thing there is that it probably paces our development. If we can't get to true AGI without way more energy than we can currently produce, then we don't have true AGI risk right now.

There's still risk because it might not be true or we might be able to get close enough to do damage. But slowing down AI is fine by me.

So will AI (or more accurately LLM) be the push needed to make limitless fusion energy a reality?

He's going after the beryllium agitator, someone stop him.

Wow, I fucking hate this guy the more he opens his mouth. He can seriously fuck off right now, if he thinks AI realistically needs him at this point he's sadly mistaken.

hey guys, theres this thing called nuclear energy. It's pretty cool.

Darn

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This is probably why he's invested so much into Helion Energy, who are trying to make a small and cheap nuclear fusion reactor.

Get rid of bitcoin and you solve the energy problem.

Put them more and more taxes. They will stop for sure.

Man, if only there was some sort of energy source that is not only green and renewable, but also outputs a ton of energy rather efficiently…

Finally some scifi bullshit he is spewing might actually lead to a good outcome

No need to follow the laws of physics anymore, it's losing us money!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The process is ludicrously energy intensive, with experts estimating that the industry could soon suck up as much electricity as an entire country.

Unperturbed, billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Bill Gates have poured substantial amounts of money into the idea.

However, while the emergent crop of startups like Helion has repeatedly claimed that fusion energy is right around the corner, we have yet to see any concrete results.

Of course, if Altman's rosy vision of the future of energy production were to turn into a reality, we'd have a considerably greener way to power these AI models.

According to an October paper published in the journal Joule, adding generative AI to Google Search alone balloons its energy uses by more than tenfold.

"Let’s not make a new model to improve only its accuracy and speed," University of Florence assistant professor Roberto Verdecchia told the New York Times.

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No fate but what we make eh

pocket nuke plants... have to be the stopgap between here and fusion. are there still people working on those car-sized nuke plants for a more distributed system?

neuromorphic chips will help https://rain.ai/