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10 Trillion Dollars (USD): What happens when the Accelerationistas Win
I recently returned from the first annual(?) TED/AI Conference, and one particular presenter, Cathy Wood of ARK Investments, exploded my brain and ushered me into new ways of thinking. The reason? Quite simply, her casual (and authoritative!) tone as she talked about emerging industries which were expected to be measured in numbers well north of…
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How Much Energy does AI Use? Total Grid Compute Power & Total Energy Resources on Planet Earth 2023
ABSTRACT — How much energy does AI use? The purpose of this post is to get some big numbers out there, to establish some heuristics about how much energy the world produces annually (across all sources: coal, solar, nuclear, etc), how much of that is used by the global compute grid, and how much is private…
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Connecting the Dots: AI Crypto, GPUs, & AGI : the Native Currency of Machina Sapiens
AI Crypto? What the hell does AI have to do with cryptocurrency? Wellllll… quite a lot, in fact. In addition to the fact that they both rely on GPUs for their heavy lifting, they will also be the major consumers of, and major (short term) competition of eachother for global compute & energy resources. But…
