A startup from Miami has developed a system to provide emissions-free energy for data-intensive AI companies, addressing the projected rise in electricity demand due to the expansion of data centers. Their innovative approach utilizes thermal energy storage and vintage technologies to capture and store solar energy, aiming to deliver reliable clean power at a fraction of current costs.
Center for a New American Security, CNAS: Projecting Future Compute for Frontier AI Models
By: Paul Scharre March 13, 2024 Executive Summary “Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental […]
Dr. Peter MacKinnon | Artificial Intelligence is on the Rampage: A Call for Guardrails & Regulation | 2023-08-30
Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon Topic: Artificial Intelligence is on the Rampage: A Call for Guardrails & Regulation. Time: Aug 30, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The AI rampage started in […]
James Lovelock at 100: the Gaia saga continues
Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence James Lovelock Allen Lane (2019) [He developed] a sustained and developing argument, in the face of […]
Playing Intelligence
How games and game engines can provide new ways of comprehending networked and distributed forms of intelligence. gaming could serve as an alternative to voting — could potentially be realized […]