The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

… Apparently so. For those who remember, in 2017, Sophia walked into the future wearing a humanoid face and carrying a Saudi passport. Was that the absurdity or was it also the point? When I wrote about Sophia becoming a Saudi citizen, the obvious question was not whether the robot was truly intelligent. It was whether we understood what we had just symbolically done. If … Continue reading The Singularity Needs a Legal Address?

AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

The Quiet Emergency Behind the AI BoomEveryone is excited about AI breaking records, writing code, designing new medicines, and maybe even thinking like us. But there is one big problem growing behind all of this: electricity. For example, training GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of energy—enough to power 100,000 homes. Every time someone asks ChatGPT a question, it uses about five times more electricity than a … Continue reading AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?