Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt AI datacenters

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Why? For Super AGIs with continuous ML/inference (aka artificial brain)?

As far as I know those models do not exist yet. Only models with a split between ML and inference (going to be really hard to get weight stability without a "sleep" regime).

OpenAI is betting on scaling, which means using more compute per request. More users times more compute is a lot more compute needed. We don't need to assume specifically what techniques will be used.

Wondering what the environmentalists will have to say about this.

More of what they're already saying: "We decide what you can use electricity for."

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