>> Welll... it's a couple of steps removed... but one of the stumbling blocks to building a true A.I is the fact that it would horribly energy inefficient with current tech, <<
True.
>> impossibly so in fact since waste energy = heat. It effect, if we tried to do it right now, we couldn't because it would fry itself unless it was something like 80% cooling systems, making it huge, clunky and vulnerable to failure much less sabotage.<<
I don't believe in waste heat, or waste energy. You just route it into some process that needs heat and ordinarily has to burn fuel to generate that. Humans are juuust barely starting to work with cyclic factory chains where each one's waste is another's raw material -- and one of the things they're doing that with is waste heat or hot water.
>> Photonic circuitry is inherently more efficient, and thus less likely to destroy itself with it's own waste heat. Which makes building something that can out-think humans in a reasonable sized package rather easier.<<
True. It'll be interesting if humans realize they're overdriving their headlights with AI in time to stop before they wreck.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-27 09:38 am (UTC)True.
>> impossibly so in fact since waste energy = heat. It effect, if we tried to do it right now, we couldn't because it would fry itself unless it was something like 80% cooling systems, making it huge, clunky and vulnerable to failure much less sabotage.<<
I don't believe in waste heat, or waste energy. You just route it into some process that needs heat and ordinarily has to burn fuel to generate that. Humans are juuust barely starting to work with cyclic factory chains where each one's waste is another's raw material -- and one of the things they're doing that with is waste heat or hot water.
>> Photonic circuitry is inherently more efficient, and thus less likely to destroy itself with it's own waste heat. Which makes building something that can out-think humans in a reasonable sized package rather easier.<<
True. It'll be interesting if humans realize they're overdriving their headlights with AI in time to stop before they wreck.