Gregory's Server@gerrymcgovern I live in a country of 1.5 M people and we consume 8 TWh per year. So thats correct. But our GDP is $40B which is half of OpenAI latest valuation, so in this sense AI is 2x more energy-effective than a small country…?
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@gerrymcgovern yep I would not exchange my country for any AI indeed. Even if it has more knowledge than a million persons. Which it probably has. And I think it has way more useful value than all crypto combined (BTC alone is estimated to take over 100 TWh per year). Actually we only scratch surface of AI powers, and electricity could be harvested more-less for free if done right. |
@Jaak And that's it, of course. There is huge money to be made in this craze right now. Yet where is the actual true, meaningful value? Your country has bakers and nurses and farmers and carpenters. People who do real things, bring value to lives. So much of AI is a scam, and when it blows up, it's going to be quite an explosion.