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The Price of an (new) Answer

Humanity has never suffered from a shortage of questions. We have suffered from a shortage of answers, and perhaps even more from a shortage of ways to search for them deeply enough. Some problems survive for decades because they are not simply difficult. They sit at the edge of what human cognition, available computation, experimental capacity, money and time can reasonably explore. Better energy storage. … Continue reading The Price of an (new) Answer

Unknown's avatarJose Larrucea
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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?

Unknown's avatarJose Larrucea