and is full of crap.
AI is not about making fake videos... that is not the revenue stream.
There is concern about eliminating jobs... especially entry level white collar and service jobs ( "make I take your order please?" ). It may eliminate jobs involving operating machinery at some point... self driving vehicles will be here... not overnight, but soon. We may all need to rethink what is income and how to "earn" a living. I do worry about that.
Sam Altman is both an asshole and, in many ways, an idiot. Looking at his company "openAI" as the yardstick by which all of AI is measured is ridiculous. Like many "first to market" with a new technology, OpenAI may well fail while the overall AI technology trend moves on.
Projecting future trends in AI spending... going out 5 years or more... based on the last few years on initial build out is just plain silly.
Same is true of power consumption and cooling technologies. Thinking outside the box ( let's put AI data centers in SPACE!!! ) is only an interesting cerebral exercise not based in fundamentals. What will happen is that AI technology ( the chips that allow for AI math to process in "real time" ) will shrink, become more specialized, and use much less power. Yes, power and cooling are an issue right now... and the race to be the first in AI ( the few successful AI companies ) is creating both supply chain issues right now as well as DC construction and resource allocation issues.
Stopping AI? Many here want to. Good luck... you might as well hold back the ocean with a pitchfork. Can we pass laws to keep it from being misused... yes, and we should. Just like we should have created laws to keep the internet from being misused. Are we wise enough to do that? Probably not.
Full disclosure - I work for a company heavily involved in AI. That said, my opinions are my own. But then early in my career I was one of the people that invented the Internet too.
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