Are we entering a world of "Bitcoin Bros for AI?" A look into the opportunities and challenges of converting Bitcoin mining facilities into AI data centers
may i suggest? do your image generation using ideogram.ai
it is MUCH better at typography, in fact ideogram is THE best typography engine for english. Unfortunately there is no equivalent for Chinese typography (yet). AI generates pseudo hanzi that make my eyes hurt.
You know, Grace? No one can stop an idea whose time has come; what that means: is powerful persuasive ideas win by their ability to attract adherence, replication. We live in a world which is increasingly foolishly fearful. But when our ideas are correct, and our actions aligned with our ideals, we can achieve wonderful things. Ideas triumph or fail because they attract or repel support. The world will outgrow all its fears and grow into truly wonderful things.
One has to wonder how many of the Web 3 and DeFi types pivoted to Generative AI and will pivot to AI Agents. Bitcoin truly has dwarfed in impact the entire crypto industry and all those products and coins that no longer exist. It makes you wonder if Gen AI will have the same fate. I'll be curious to hear more about the datacenter, energy, water and geopolitics of datacenters in the future.
yes, definitely. I'm working on another long-form research piece on whether we actually need these mega data centers, especially if model training has really hit a wall and hyperscalers are going to be more focused on inference now.
I think a lot of this is in preparation for what models will be able to do in 5 to 10 years as opposed to what they can do today. So the risk of not building giga centers of compute is too high for many of these companies in the running. But we are quickly approaching a point where the numbers of companies able to compete is relatively few. I think if you ask the majority of ML engineers at these top frontier model builder research labs, most of them will insist that this is the critical factor.
BigTech is already responding to Elon Musk in that direction.
Datacenters. Aside from the facts that bitcoin is vulnerable to collision attacks, it is also vulnerable to quantum computing attacks. To this we can add its a favored tool for money laundering, drug dealing, tax evasion, prostitution. In contrast datacenters gather all kinds of information that can then be evaluated and also can be reprocessed as training data for AI. I figure the bitcoin bubble will finally burst within 10 years at latest.
may i suggest? do your image generation using ideogram.ai
it is MUCH better at typography, in fact ideogram is THE best typography engine for english. Unfortunately there is no equivalent for Chinese typography (yet). AI generates pseudo hanzi that make my eyes hurt.
You know, Grace? No one can stop an idea whose time has come; what that means: is powerful persuasive ideas win by their ability to attract adherence, replication. We live in a world which is increasingly foolishly fearful. But when our ideas are correct, and our actions aligned with our ideals, we can achieve wonderful things. Ideas triumph or fail because they attract or repel support. The world will outgrow all its fears and grow into truly wonderful things.
One has to wonder how many of the Web 3 and DeFi types pivoted to Generative AI and will pivot to AI Agents. Bitcoin truly has dwarfed in impact the entire crypto industry and all those products and coins that no longer exist. It makes you wonder if Gen AI will have the same fate. I'll be curious to hear more about the datacenter, energy, water and geopolitics of datacenters in the future.
yes, definitely. I'm working on another long-form research piece on whether we actually need these mega data centers, especially if model training has really hit a wall and hyperscalers are going to be more focused on inference now.
I think a lot of this is in preparation for what models will be able to do in 5 to 10 years as opposed to what they can do today. So the risk of not building giga centers of compute is too high for many of these companies in the running. But we are quickly approaching a point where the numbers of companies able to compete is relatively few. I think if you ask the majority of ML engineers at these top frontier model builder research labs, most of them will insist that this is the critical factor.
BigTech is already responding to Elon Musk in that direction.
Datacenters. Aside from the facts that bitcoin is vulnerable to collision attacks, it is also vulnerable to quantum computing attacks. To this we can add its a favored tool for money laundering, drug dealing, tax evasion, prostitution. In contrast datacenters gather all kinds of information that can then be evaluated and also can be reprocessed as training data for AI. I figure the bitcoin bubble will finally burst within 10 years at latest.