Artificial Intelligence and its Energy Appetite

The Last Optimist
26/09/2023 42 min Episodio 47
Artificial Intelligence and its Energy Appetite

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The invention of useful artificial intelligence (AI), epitomized by the hype over ChatGPT, is the latest example of a basic truth about technology: There have always been many more inventions that use energy than those that can produce it. Only a few inventions over history are as energy-hungry as AI; it ranks up there with the invention of the automobile and aircraft.

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