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AI DataCenters & Training Runs 2025 : How much Energy, how much Money?
There has been a lot of noise in the mainstream press about the massive buildout of AI datacenters across the world.. with the latest being an audacious announcement by the Trump presidency of the $500 billion Project Stargate. The primary market signal of this buildout is “CapEx,” or capital expenditures, reported by the top 5…
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Fear Not : AI Utopia, AI Dystopia, all at once: Embracing the Contradiction
I spent more than a year pulling my hair out about the “non-zero” chance of AI being the singular agent of human extinction… warning everyone who would listen to me (which was, in the end, quite a lot of people). Getting the facts straight. Collaborating with one of the early harbingers, Max Tegmark and his…
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Quantum Narratives: a Manifesto of Sorts
Storytelling is key to human experience. It sits at the very core of our identity as both individuals (“what is your personal narrative?”) and as a civilization (“the American Dream”) and a species (“Creation, Manifest Destiny, Evolution, the Civilized Ape, Masters of the Universe”). Traditional narrative has always been linear, perhaps due to the nature…
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iPhone vs SuperComputer : When the Black Mirror in your pocket is smarter than You
Many youngsters, born safely after the dawn of the new millenium, do not have proper context to appreciate the modern miracle of the smartphone, or what i call the “iPhone vs Supercomputer” comparison. The fact is, that the phone you carry in your pocket literally packs the computing punch of the world’s fastest supercomputer of…
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The XR Blueprint: Where we are headed
I’ve posted fairly extensively before about the rough equivalency of our modern iPhones vs. the worlds fastest supercomputers in Y2K. That in itself is amazing. There are several key trends at work that make that possible: Moore’s Law the eternal(?) Truth of Tech — that every 18 months, processor power doubles. AI Designs Silicon In…
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AI in Hollywood Today : “Not a single frame untouched”
There is a growing resistance to AI in Hollywood.. and AI-generated content flooding the internets. The general concept of this genAI content flood has been dubbed “Slop”… images, text, and videos that are laser-targeted to the algorithm, that appear at first glance to be some of the [coolest architecture / most beautiful faces / most awesome…
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The (Hidden) Faces of Militarized AI 2030 : Starlink, Palantir, Anduril
OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google’s continual Gemini faceplants, and now Apple’s (“Intelligence”) tend to dominate the public conversation about AI. But what about militarized AI, the AI of global warfare, the AI that will theoretically control the killer robots of sci-fi lore? Let us not forget what fully 1/6th of the entire federal budget, and fully half (50%)…
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the AI Chip Race : nVidia vs. the World in Silicon Warfare 2024
All the news, and all the stock market, seems to celebrate nVidia these days, with their apparent stranglehold on the global AI chip race market. Their domination, and the unprecedented demand for their fastest chips (currently the H100, as of 2024), has been the major factor that has propelled them into position as the most…
