Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

The expansion of AI infrastructure has significant environmental costs. Training large models can consume vast amounts of energy; generating text can use as much energy as charging a smartphone nearly four times, and generating one thousand images is equivalent to charging a smartphone 242 times!Big ideas from the book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmare… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ideas.nextbigwhat.com/subscribe