[HN Gopher] Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Requir...
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       Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough
       Energy Source
        
       Author : DyslexicAtheist
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-01-22 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | dexwiz wrote:
       | This is my concern with AI in general. Cost, both real and
       | monetary. Right now Microsoft and VCs are dumping money into AI
       | operation to help with growth and adoption. What happens when
       | AI's business focus moves from cost to grow to cost to serve?
       | Will all these business who integrated in AI suddenly be saddled
       | with huge bills? What if your product depends on AI, and suddenly
       | is not profitable to operate? Anecdotally I have already seen
       | people pull back AI features, because it turned out to be too
       | expensive to serve in the long run.
       | 
       | I already pay for a GPT subscription, and its reliability is one
       | of the worst of any product I pay for. The novelty keeps me
       | paying, but I can't imagine building a business on it.
        
       | cyanydeez wrote:
       | first evidence that OpenAI is seriously lowballing it's tech
       | bills and unless there's serious GPU efficiency gains, they're
       | doing ye olde uber dances trying to get their consumers locked in
       | before the price hikes start.
        
       | BobaFloutist wrote:
       | Ah we've now reached the "We're ready to go except for the
       | magical development in another domain that's already resisted
       | decades of concerted research and is absolutely necessary for
       | what we do to actually make sense" stage. Good to know.
        
       | EA-3167 wrote:
       | The AI winter is coming, and it's going to be bad. So many
       | promises have been made, to the extent that the average person
       | thinks that AGI is just around the corner.
        
       | hnu234 wrote:
       | Don't fret. I hear nuclear fusion ( clean energy for everyone )
       | is just around corner.
       | 
       | Whatever happened to graphene? It was what everyone was talking
       | about and then nothing.
        
         | favorited wrote:
         | Energy from nuclear fusion is available today - you just need
         | solar panels to capture it.
        
           | ogogmad wrote:
           | Isn't storage still a problem? I suppose there's batteries
           | and pumped-storage hydro.
        
       | ogogmad wrote:
       | How's analogue computing progressing as a more energy-efficient
       | alternative?
        
       | kuahyeow wrote:
       | So AGI will invent fusion, but we need fusion for AGI. Chicken-
       | egg :)
        
         | Zacharias030 wrote:
         | Remember that the chicken and egg problem was eventually solved
         | ;) (Don't you ask how)
        
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