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The GPT Era Is Already Ending (www.theatlantic.com)
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If this is the way to superintelligence, it remains a bizarre one. “This is back to a million monkeys typing for a million years generating the works of Shakespeare,” Emily Bender told me. But OpenAI’s technology effectively crunches those years down to seconds. A company blog boasts that an o1 model scored better than most humans on a recent coding test that allowed participants to submit 50 possible solutions to each problem—but only when o1 was allowed 10,000 submissions instead. No human could come up with that many possibilities in a reasonable length of time, which is exactly the point. To OpenAI, unlimited time and resources are an advantage that its hardware-grounded models have over biology. Not even two weeks after the launch of the o1 preview, the start-up presented plans to build data centers that would each require the power generated by approximately five large nuclear reactors, enough for almost 3 million homes.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is that something like this, on such a large scale, has never been done before.

Stopping anyone from doing anything that gives them power, wealth, comfort is an extremely difficult task, let alone asking that of the ultra-rich. Even more so because it runs contrary the very nature of a capitalist economy.

Once renewable energy becomes nearly as good, all that will be needed is a combination of laws, regulations, activism to nudge the collective in the right decision.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Renewable energy is already cheaper than fossils. It's already cheaper to build a solar farm than a fossil mine and power plant that produce the same energy.

But, if you charge the people more money for the fossils, then you can make a bigger profit margin even if you're wasting all that money. And the profit is even bigger if you get the government to eat the expense of building those mines and plants and subsidize fuel prices.

So the most profitable thing you can do is choose the least efficient method to generate power, complain to the government that you need subsidies to compete, and gouge customers on the prices. Capitalism!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No better way to steal money than free enterprise.