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Inner-Cress9727 t1_j0couek wrote

Society has a lot of decisions to make. One of which is how much energy do AIs get. They are estimated to consume at least half of humanity’s current energy production by 2030 (7 years!). This is because of the end of Dales Law - where the power requirement of electronics shrunk as the die size did. So now energy consumption for machine learning is going exponential. We’ll be competing with google et al for electricity. Poor people are f’d.

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LieRevolutionary4182 OP t1_j0fg16e wrote

What's Dale's Law? The only one I can find has to do with neurons.

If you mean Moore's Law; then your understanding isn't quite right. Moore saw a trend in the amount of transistors in an integrated circuit doubling every two years as of 1975. That has leveled off in the last ~10 or 12 years. Maybe you are deriving something else from Moore's Law (which may be correct) but it wasn't about power consumption.

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