{"id":90911,"date":"2024-03-12T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90911"},"modified":"2024-03-12T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:25:44","slug":"amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power-halper-other-items-re-ai-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/12\/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power-halper-other-items-re-ai-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power&#8221; [Halper] + other items re: AI in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2024\/03\/07\/ai-data-centers-power\/\"><strong>Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Evan Halper<br \/>\n<em>AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America\u2019s power grid to the brink. Utilities can\u2019t keep up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation\u2019s creaking power grid.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nA major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers. AI is also part of a huge scale-up of cloud computing.\u00a0Tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft\u00a0are scouring the nation for sites for new data centers, and many lesser-known firms are also on the hunt.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/the-obscene-energy-demands-of-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I.<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from newyorker.com by Elizabeth Kolbert<br \/>\n<em>How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a fundamental mismatch between this technology and environmental sustainability,\u201d de Vries said. Recently, the world\u2019s most prominent A.I. cheerleader, Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, voiced similar concerns, albeit with a different spin. \u201cI think we still don\u2019t appreciate the energy needs of this technology,\u201d Altman said at a public appearance in Davos. He didn\u2019t see how these needs could be met, he went on, \u201cwithout a breakthrough.\u201d He added, \u201cWe need fusion or we need, like, radically cheaper solar plus storage, or something, at massive scale\u2014like, a scale that no one is really planning for.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/capabilities\/mckinsey-digital\/our-insights\/a-generative-ai-reset-rewiring-to-turn-potential-into-value-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A generative AI reset: Rewiring to turn potential into value in 2024<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from mckinsey.com by Eric Lamarre, Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, and Rodney Zemmel; via Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>The generative AI payoff may only come when companies do deeper organizational surgery on their business.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Figure out where gen AI copilots can give you a real competitive advantage<\/li>\n<li>Upskill the talent you have but be clear about the gen-AI-specific skills you need<\/li>\n<li>Form a centralized team to establish standards that enable responsible scaling<\/li>\n<li>Set up the technology architecture to scale<\/li>\n<li>Ensure data quality and focus on unstructured data to fuel your models<\/li>\n<li>Build trust and reusability to drive adoption and scale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/prompt-engineering-is-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from spectrum.ieee.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Since\u00a0ChatGPT\u00a0dropped\u00a0in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at\u00a0prompt engineering\u2014finding a clever way to phrase your query to a\u00a0large language model\u00a0(LLM) or\u00a0AI art or video generator\u00a0to get the best results or\u00a0sidestep protections. The Internet is replete with prompt-engineering\u00a0guides,\u00a0cheat sheets, and\u00a0advice threads\u00a0to help you get the most out of an LLM.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHowever, new research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the model itself, and not by a human engineer. This has cast doubt on prompt engineering\u2019s future\u2014and increased suspicions that a fair portion of prompt-engineering jobs may be a passing fad, at least as the field is currently imagined.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timharford.com\/2024\/03\/what-the-birth-of-the-spreadsheet-teaches-us-about-generative-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What the birth of the spreadsheet teaches us about generative AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from timharford.com by Tim Harford; via Sam DeBrule<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There is one very clear parallel between the digital spreadsheet and generative AI: both are computer apps that collapse time. A task that might have taken hours or days can suddenly be completed in seconds. So accept for a moment the premise that the digital spreadsheet has something to teach us about generative AI. What lessons should we absorb?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>It\u2019s that pace of change that gives me pause. Ethan Mollick, author of the forthcoming book\u00a0<em>Co-Intelligence<\/em>, tells me \u201cif progress on generative AI stops now, the spreadsheet is not a bad analogy\u201d. We\u2019d get some dramatic shifts in the workplace, a technology that broadly empowers workers and creates good new jobs, and everything would be fine. But is it going to stop any time soon? Mollick doubts that, and so do I.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Evan Halper AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America\u2019s power grid to the brink. Utilities can\u2019t keep up. Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,139,356,174,86,209,112,306,210,816,263,63,216,239,431,44,309,196,269,480,20,321,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-apple","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-corporate-business-world","category-economics","category-emerging-technologies","category-facebook","category-geography-geology","category-google","category-microsoft","category-new-business-models","category-organizational-change","category-pace-of-change","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-society","category-strategy","category-united-states","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90953,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90911\/revisions\/90953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}