Comment by Rover222
1 day ago
Each datacenter iteration that increases the size and power consumption is a stepping stone towards (possibly) recursive self-improvement in AI tech. I think that's the way to frame the absolutely massive bets being made by (only a few) companies. There aren't many companies or nation states in the world that can marshal the resources and talent needed to keep competing on this path.
It's a race to the the most powerful and transformative technology in history.
Or it might all collapse like a house of cards. But worth a shot.
> But worth a shot.
Worth betting the entire US economy on it?
Only a significant portion of it.
No. Nothing is but is that what's happening?
Huge bets were made on the Internet technology in the US and it paid off even with the dot com bubble bursting.
If we don't stay on top of technology then we will simply be passed by China.
People also said the Internet was going revolutionize everything in the 90s and it did. AI is already pretty impressive and we are just in the infancy of the technology.
The thing is, China seems to be able to keep up with much less invested. I don't know how much it took for them to create DeepSeek and their other power efficient models, but it sure doesn't take much to run them. Meanwhile American AI seems to have a limitless hunger for energy.
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>AI is already pretty impressive and we are just in the infancy of the technology.
What do you mean by infancy? AI research exists for at least 50 years, longer than web development.
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