Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap

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• mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Funny that decades of the GOP sabotaging progress on renewable energy like solar and wind, and torpedoing research into modernizing the power grid - specifically because it would make deploying renewable easier, will end up helping to hand the lead of possibly the most consequential industry of the 21st century over to China.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The power grid crisis that your AIs cause?

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The crisis they created by chasing gains with no regard to efficiency.

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• Feyd@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no… anyway

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• thelivefive@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  If AI is so smart, why don’t we just ask it to fix the power grid crisis?

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  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Because it will only fix it for AI and not for the inefficient meat puppets.

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a crisis because they want somebody else to pay for it, especially if the AI bubble would pop and all that infrastructure left would stay there responsibility and sunk cost.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One of the add more LLM to get AGI guys, alright.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No Climate Change will

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “AI’s natural limit is electricity, not chips,” Schmidt said, cutting through the industry’s semiconductor obsession with characteristic bluntness.

  I mean, maybe in the very long term that’s a fundamental limit, and you face things like Dyson spheres.

  But right now, I’m personally running one human-level AGI on roughly 100W of energy, so I’m just gonna say that as things stand, the prominent limitation is software not being good enough. You’re, like, a software guy.

  Ultimately it’s an optimization problem, and if we don’t know how to solve the software problems, then, yeah, we can be inefficient and dump some of the heavy lifting on the hardware guys to get a small edge.

  But I’m pretty sure that the real breakthrough that needs to happen isn’t on the hardware side. Like, my existing PC and GPU already are more capable than my brain from a hardware standpoint. The hardware guys have already done their side and then some compared to human biology. It’s that we haven’t figured out the software to run on them to make them do what we want.

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  • artifex@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give yourself some credit! Your human-level intelligence is only using about 20W. The other 80 is for the meat robot it has to pilot to get stuff done.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tower, moving into refrigerator area

      Hands, prepare for food extraction

      Stomach stand by

      Stomach stand by

      Eyes show doors within range

      Extending arm, prepare handle grasp

      Handle secured

      Contract arm for open

      Door is opening

      *alarm siren*

      Unauthorized food ejection ALERT

      Eyes reporting the raspberries fell out again

      *launch expletives*

      Stomach, stand by

      All arms, hands defend against the animals

      Emergency cleanup all hands

      *launch expletives, threaten animals*

      Head warning, open refrigerator door - repeat: Head warning

      Stomach, stand by

      *auxilliary cursing: ON*

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    • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah and you can survive outside of a data center and walk through a room with a full cup of coffee without spilling it.

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• dumbass@quokk.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nawwwwwww, so sad.

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