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Notes on energy and intelligence becoming cheaper

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For quite a few of you, this is the first email you get from me, so before I get to it I want to say two things. 1. Hi! 2. Today’s post is not at all going to be like the essays that bought most of you here over the last two weeks (“Relationships are coevolutionary loops” and “A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox”). Those are cute and personal; this one is dry and technical. It is about trends in AI and energy markets. If that is not what you feel like—warmly welcome, and see you in two weeks when I return to writing personal essays. /Henrik In 2015, I amused myself by training a neural network to generate poems in the style of various poets I knew and submitted the results to a fanzine. The thing I built was a primitive language model and—though I thought it was fascinating, seeing a computer talk—it did not occur to me that it could be useful for much beyond pranks. I would never have guesse

Notes on energy and intelligence becoming cheaper Henrik Karlsson Nov 15, 2023 82 10 4 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -16:01 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In 2015, I amused myself by training a neural network to generate poems in the style of various poets I knew and submitted the results to a fanzine. The thing I built was a primitive language model and—though I thought it was fascinating, seeing a computer talk—it did not occur to me that it could be useful for much beyond pranks. I would never have guessed that seven years later, the same basic idea scaled u

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