Comment by axlrosen on Open Thread – Autumn 2023 · 2023-11-11T09:52:59.450Z · LW · GW

Newbie here.

In the AI Timeline post, one person says it's likely that we will consume 1000x more energy in 8 years than we do today. (And another person says it's plausible.)

How would that happen? I guess the idea is: we discover over the next 3-5 years that plowing compute into AI is hugely beneficial, and so we then race to build hundreds or thousands of nuclear reactors?

Comment by axlrosen on All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [April 2023] · 2023-07-09T16:28:27.174Z · LW · GW

Intuitively, I assume that LLMs trained on human data are unlikely to become much smarter than humans, right? Without some additional huge breakthrough, other than just being a language model?