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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

3 years ago by Flying Squid to c/technology

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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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phoenixz 8 points 3 years ago

Mega corporations should not be allowed to use nuclear power plants purely for themselves.

Also, if you need that much power to do something bthat a human brain does with under 100 watts, I really think you're doing it wrong

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Simran 22 points 3 years ago

If you're so smart why don't you come up with a way to do it under 100 watts???

Also this is training them not using them. Using an ai consumes significantly less power than the process to train it sort of like how humans take more to learn than to put something in practice.

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joemo 10 points 3 years ago

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SineSwiper 9 points 3 years ago

People tend to forgot the millions of years of horribly inefficient evolution it took to develop the human brain.

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Potatisen 1 point 3 years ago

Don't think the point that's being made is "smarturr" but rather that stay within the margins of available power.

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Zima 4 points 3 years ago

I think his point is that the person he responded to is proposing well meaning feeling based policies without having any real knowledge of any of the negative impacts his policy would have.

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