“There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.

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96 points

The human brain uses about 20W. Maybe AI needs to be more efficient instead?

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58 points

Perfect let’s use human brains as CPUs then. Not the whole brain just the unused bits.

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I would love it (if there exists a FOSS variant of that) imagine being able to run a LLM, or even LAM in your head,

wait…

🤔

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4 points

FOSS Neuralink

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20 points

We use all of our brain. Well, some of us try to anyway.

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54 points

I’ve seen that film

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It’s what matrix would’ve been if the studios didn’t think people would too dumb to get it, so we ended with the nonsense about batteries.

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6 points

Flubber!

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36 points

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5 points

That would require a revolutionary discovery in material science and hardware.

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10 points

And yet we have brains. This brute force approach to machine learning is quite effective but has problems scaling. So, new energy sources or new thinking?

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We just run the AI for a gazillion epochs and then it’s overfitted evolved intelligence. Thanks Darwin we did it again.

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It’d be way easier to just grow brains instead

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We invented computers to do things human brains either couldn’t do, or couldn’t do fast enough.

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