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

    • JJROKCZ
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      111 year ago

      Not efficiently and not as reliably as a nuclear reactor though. It would if they built a space station in an orbit with minimal other objects getting in the way of it and the sun. Teach the ai in between Sol and Venus and bring it back if it discovers anything useful rather than making revenge porn and plagiarizing artists

      • @[email protected]
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        161 year ago

        1 GW of solar is much cheaper than 1 GW of nuclear. Solar is both cheaper to build and cheaper to run. It’s the most efficient energy source e currently have.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Plus it doesn’t have the con of meltdown and nuclear fallout. Safer nuclear power is still potentially fucking dangerous for life for 20000 years. Nuclear fission energy is the height of human hubris.

        • FaceDeer
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          61 year ago

          It also turns on and off outside of any human control.

        • GigglyBobble
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          31 year ago

          Nuclear produces that 1 GW 24/7 and all year though. My solar panels vastly overproduce on most summer days and are worthless at nights and from fall to spring.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            They stop reactors all the time. It’ll probably be cheaper to get a massive battery pack+solar

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            If we’re still talking about AI, you can ramp up the AI training and batch workloads when the sun is shining and stop them overnight. It’s one of those things like aluminum smelters where you can adjust the load

        • JJROKCZ
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          11 year ago

          That is way too hot and uncontrollable for our current tech to tap into. Solar panels are the best we can do for now until we figure out Dyson spheres