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0 pointsJuliate1y ago0 comments

And where do you find the energy technology required for that to happen?

Hint: it's not on the radar, but if you account for several fundamental breakthroughs in energy production, storage and transport, and all that while having positive side-effects on Earth's ecosystem, within the next 50 years.

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voidspark1y ago· 2 in thread

I'm not talking about current primitive technology with these power hungry LLMs.

The human brain runs on only 0.3 kWh per day. There is much room for optimization for artificial intelligence.

They don't need many super intelligent systems to replace the relatively small number of software developers.

Just build a few nuclear power stations. Cheaper than millions of developer salaries.

JuliateOP1y ago

Totally agree, IF an AGI can fully replace/improve on the work of developers, it's definitely cheaper.

But: 1/ cheaper isn't always affordable either.

2/ who will engineer/maintain/steer AGI once AGI takes the job? once you make that leap, there's no way back, no one to understand the machine that makes the stuff we rely on.

And that circles back, in some way, with the debate about AI-generated art: there's no human component in it, there's no understanding, no feedback loop, no conversation.

voidspark1y ago

> who will engineer/maintain/steer AGI once AGI takes the job?

Yeah that's the question. A reduced number of human developers may be privileged to work in these companies.

It's hard to imagine a world with cheap artificial super intelligence. It's like we are introducing a new artificial life form into society, whether it's actually conscious or not.

> debate about AI-generated art

I hope there will always be a majority of people who reject AI generated music.

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