awe_0604 t1_j7co5y4 wrote
New battery technologies leading to new ways of mining, power generation, transmission and storage. Black swan: some forms of the externality of climate change.
Redditing-Dutchman t1_j7dekms wrote
Hmm yes I was thinking about this. Currently nobody talks about the power usage of chatGPT. It's quite a lot per prompt and this is only going to get worse as the models get bigger and bigger.
A black swan event could be that we simply don't have enough power available to unlock the true potential of AI in the next few years and that progress is being held back because of these power shortages.
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