alt Hacker NewsCompute is a convergent instrumental goal. Any runaway paperclip maximizing AI is going to want lots of GPUs. And any runaway corporation trying to build an "aligned" runaway AI is going to try and feed it as many of them as possible.
Compute is a convergent instrumental goal. Any runaway paperclip maximizing AI is going to want lots of GPUs. And any runaway corporation trying to build an "aligned" runaway AI is going to try and feed it as many of them as possible.
OK, but why discount the simpler explanation that these tools are the most direct means for turning electricity into a wide range of economic value ever built, & thus demand is effectively unbounded?