“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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    29 months 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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      149 months 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.

      • FaceDeer
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        49 months ago

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

      • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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        29 months 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.

      • GigglyBobble
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        19 months 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.

        • @kalleboo
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          39 months 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

        • @HerrBeter
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          29 months ago

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

      • JJROKCZ
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        19 months 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