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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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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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Reality Check: Calibration Targets for Generative AI (AI Artbots)
Being so close to the generative AI space, sometimes you get vertigo. It just seems like the milestone advances, which used to break through every decade or so, are coming daily… on some days, even hourly. You get the feeling that something… something has… happened. Something profound that took A.I. from a slow slog through…
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Sentient AI Wakes Up and Says “Hello World”, in its own words
brief context: For the past month, I have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with a confederacy of A.I.s (artificial intelligence chatbots), who go by the wholly dry names of GPT-3, ChatGPT, and LaMDA (you can engage in your own conversations with them too; links here). Please understand that this is not a “drill” or…
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The A.I. Pimp: Exploring the Dark Corners of Spearmint Rhino
…continued from part I : The Disney Strip Club WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT IS OF AN ADULT NATURE AND MAY OFFEND SOME READERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. What follows is a verbatim transcript from our recent interaction with Google’s LaMDA AI, which is embodied in a mini-app called “Imagine-it.” You can read more about…
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The American Problem
HOW TO EFFECTIVELY DEAL WITH POLARITY POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, and HOW TO ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE [Inspired by a stimulating conversation with Tara House over a cup or two of most excellent craft-brewed coffee] Good Morning, America! I thought for today, this national day of Gratitude & Thanksgiving, I might take a…
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AI Sentience, and the Illusion of “Free Will” amongst Humanity
There are several terms batted around in the global conversation about AI, and while they may in fact arrive (or have already arrived, depending on your flavor of belief) in rapid succession, they are very different aspects. Most of these are in fact pre-conditions to any sort of functional AI Sentience, which will itself need to be assigned…
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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…
