Comment on OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough
SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Right, surely the energy intensive AIs will make the world invest in climate-friendly energy instead of just burning more fossil fuels as they always did.
You linked to the article but didn’t read this part?
In 2021, Altman personally provided $375 million to private U.S. nuclear fusion company Helion Energy, which since has signed a deal to provide energy to Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab in future years. Microsoft is OpenAI’s biggest financial backer and provides it computing resources for AI. Altman said he wished the world would embrace nuclear fission as an energy source as well.
Yeah, nothing about fossil fuels.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Fission isn’t fusion, and saying he “wishes” people would use more of it isn’t actually doing anything to push for that. Fusion is still a fantasy for now, and in the meantime there is only going to be more fossil fuel use coming out of this.
sculd@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Absolutely. Just because Altman “wishes” a new energy breakthrough its not suddenly going to happen. And even if nuclear fusion succeed, applying them in real life in scale is another big problem…
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 11 months ago
And he wants it to succeed because he’s invested money into it and wants to make more money, not because he cares about the environment.