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OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
submitted 10 months ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI.

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," he said. "It motivates us to go invest more in fusion."

Right, surely the energy intensive AIs will make the world invest in climate-friendly energy instead of just burning more fossil fuels as they always did.

Also shows how unsustainable the current neoliberal system is.

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[–] megopie@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Huh, wasn’t this what they also said about why it was ok for bitcoin to be using as much power as Bulgaria?

Honestly these hype bait things seem increasingly just excuses to build out more centralized computing capability.

[–] sculd@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Very on brand for Altman.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 10 months ago

The whole point of mining/staking/whatever is to be expensive. Governments can pigouvian tax it to high hell, mine workers can unionize, and it won't make any difference to users whatsoever. So there's literally no benefit to more energy use.

Bitcoin mines can't do general computing. They use ASICs that can only mine.