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October 12, 2023
AI's electricity use is spiking so fast it'll soon use as much power as an entire country
AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard consume an astronomical amount of electricity and water — or, more precisely, the massive data centers that power them do. In a recent analysis published in the journal Joule, data scientist Alex de Vries at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands found that by 2027, these server farms could use anywhere between 85 to 134 terawatt hours of energy per year. That's roughly on par with the annual electricity use of Argentina, the Netherlands, or Sweden, as the New York Times points out, or 0.5 percent of the entire globe's energy demands. Sound familiar? The much-lampooned crypto industry spiked past similar power consumption thresholds in recent years. It's a massive carbon footprint that experts say should force us to reconsider the huge investments being made in the AI space — not to mention the eye-wateringly resource-intensive way that tech giants like OpenAI and Google operate.
October 12, 2023
AI's electricity use is spiking so fast it'll soon use as much power as an entire country
October 12, 2023
AI's electricity use is spiking so fast it'll soon use as much power as an entire country
AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard consume an astronomical amount of electricity and water — or, more precisely, the massive data centers that power them do. In a recent analysis published in the journal Joule, data scientist Alex de Vries at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands found that by 2027, these server farms could use anywhere between 85 to 134 terawatt hours of energy per year. That's roughly on par with the annual electricity use of Argentina, the Netherlands, or Sweden, as the New York Times points out, or 0.5 percent of the entire globe's energy demands. Sound familiar? The much-lampooned crypto industry spiked past similar power consumption thresholds in recent years. It's a massive carbon footprint that experts say should force us to reconsider the huge investments being made in the AI space — not to mention the eye-wateringly resource-intensive way that tech giants like OpenAI and Google operate.
October 11, 2023
Mycket intressant rapport från Internetstiftelsen: Svenskarna och Internet 2023
En unik inblick i svenskarnas digitala liv: Välkommen till Svenskarna och internet 2023, en unik undersökning av svenska folkets digitala tillvaro. Med den här rapporten vill Internetstiftelsen bidra med fakta och insikter om hur användningen av internet i Sverige utvecklas och ge förutsättningar till att digitaliseringen av det svenska samhället och näringslivet sker på välinformerad grund.
October 11, 2023
Mycket intressant rapport från Internetstiftelsen: Svenskarna och Internet 2023
October 11, 2023
Mycket intressant rapport från Internetstiftelsen: Svenskarna och Internet 2023
En unik inblick i svenskarnas digitala liv: Välkommen till Svenskarna och internet 2023, en unik undersökning av svenska folkets digitala tillvaro. Med den här rapporten vill Internetstiftelsen bidra med fakta och insikter om hur användningen av internet i Sverige utvecklas och ge förutsättningar till att digitaliseringen av det svenska samhället och näringslivet sker på välinformerad grund.
October 10, 2023
Analysis: "AI’s $200B Question"
The goal of this analysis is to highlight the gap that we see today. AI hype has finally caught up to the deep learning technology breakthroughs in development since 2017. This is good news. A major CapEx buildout is happening. This should bring AI development costs down dramatically over the long-term. You used to have to buy a server rack to build any application. Now you can use the public clouds at a much lower cost. Likewise, today many AI companies are using a large portion of their venture capital on GPUs. As today’s supply constraints give way to a supply glut, the cost of running AI workloads will come down. This should spur more product development. It should also attract more founders to build in this space.
October 10, 2023
Analysis: "AI’s $200B Question"
October 10, 2023
Analysis: "AI’s $200B Question"
The goal of this analysis is to highlight the gap that we see today. AI hype has finally caught up to the deep learning technology breakthroughs in development since 2017. This is good news. A major CapEx buildout is happening. This should bring AI development costs down dramatically over the long-term. You used to have to buy a server rack to build any application. Now you can use the public clouds at a much lower cost. Likewise, today many AI companies are using a large portion of their venture capital on GPUs. As today’s supply constraints give way to a supply glut, the cost of running AI workloads will come down. This should spur more product development. It should also attract more founders to build in this space.
October 10, 2023
G7 to draw up AI code of conduct this autumn: Kishida
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled a plan on Monday to hold a video conference with Group of Seven leaders this autumn to formulate international guidelines and a code of conduct for developers of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The envisaged compilation of the guidelines and code of conduct is part of the Hiroshima AI Process, an initiative for international best practices regarding generative AI, according to the Japanese leader.
October 10, 2023
G7 to draw up AI code of conduct this autumn: Kishida
October 10, 2023
G7 to draw up AI code of conduct this autumn: Kishida
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled a plan on Monday to hold a video conference with Group of Seven leaders this autumn to formulate international guidelines and a code of conduct for developers of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The envisaged compilation of the guidelines and code of conduct is part of the Hiroshima AI Process, an initiative for international best practices regarding generative AI, according to the Japanese leader.
October 9, 2023
China Plans Big AI and Computing Buildup in Boon for Local Firms
China aims to grow the country’s computing power by more than a third in less than three years, a move set to benefit local suppliers and boost technology self-reliance as US sanctions pressure domestic industry. The world’s second-largest economy is targeting more than 300 exaflops of computing capacity across its tech sector by 2025 from 220 this year, according to a joint statement from several agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The goal marks Beijing’s latest attempt to construct digital infrastructure to spur a sluggish economy.
October 9, 2023
China Plans Big AI and Computing Buildup in Boon for Local Firms
October 9, 2023
China Plans Big AI and Computing Buildup in Boon for Local Firms
China aims to grow the country’s computing power by more than a third in less than three years, a move set to benefit local suppliers and boost technology self-reliance as US sanctions pressure domestic industry. The world’s second-largest economy is targeting more than 300 exaflops of computing capacity across its tech sector by 2025 from 220 this year, according to a joint statement from several agencies including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The goal marks Beijing’s latest attempt to construct digital infrastructure to spur a sluggish economy.
October 6, 2023
10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype
I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.” What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say is that sophisticated technologies like AI and deep learning have been around for a long time now, and all this hype around AI is ignoring the simple fact that they have been in development for decades. “We saw the earliest enterprise adoption in 2010,” she pointed out.
October 6, 2023
10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype
October 6, 2023
10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype
I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.” What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say is that sophisticated technologies like AI and deep learning have been around for a long time now, and all this hype around AI is ignoring the simple fact that they have been in development for decades. “We saw the earliest enterprise adoption in 2010,” she pointed out.
