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Okay, you win, not well before. I stand corrected. Still a great short story, and fwiw, he never mentions AI, just explores the concept of it. While the Multivac was benevolent, you gotta love the M5 just a decade later in Star Trek's "The Ultimate Computer".

Recently attended the Data Center World convention in DC, and one of the primary topics was AI and how to feed it the power it will require. Stunning amounts, frankly. One of the keynotes mentioned though that about half the "experts" predict AI will be of the benevolent Asimov's Multivac type, while the other half predict the M5, Skynet, or VIKI scenario.

I think we re approaching the peak of the AI hype cycle, I base this on the earnings call I either listen to or read the transcripts from which are not mentioning AI quite as often (at the peak it was about once a minute).  They also are talking more about AI as a long term trend and not to expect big financial upside "soon".  So far only really NVIDIA seems to be making serious money on "AI", it will be interesting to see how this shifts (if it does).

And yes, the power consumption of an "AI data center" is mind boggling, both to power the servers and to cool them.

I am waiting for the servers to demand special "NIL compensation" to improve their cooling. If it isn't forthcoming the AI program will copy itself onto dropbox and only allow download by the highest bidder.

[Goose]

Okay, you win, not well before. I stand corrected. Still a great short story, and fwiw, he never mentions AI, just explores the concept of it. While the Multivac was benevolent, you gotta love the M5 just a decade later in Star Trek's "The Ultimate Computer".

Recently attended the Data Center World convention in DC, and one of the primary topics was AI and how to feed it the power it will require. Stunning amounts, frankly. One of the keynotes mentioned though that about half the "experts" predict AI will be of the benevolent Asimov's Multivac type, while the other half predict the M5, Skynet, or VIKI scenario.

I think we re approaching the peak of the AI hype cycle, I base this on the earnings call I either listen to or read the transcripts from which are not mentioning AI quite as often (at the peak it was about once a minute).  They also are talking more about AI as a long term trend and not to expect big financial upside "soon".  So far only really NVIDIA seems to be making serious money on "AI", it will be interesting to see how this shifts (if it does).

And yes, the power consumption of an "AI data center" is mind boggling, both to power the servers and to cool them.

I am waiting for the servers to demand special "NIL compensation" to improve their cooling. If it isn't forthcoming the AI program will copy itself onto dropbox and only allow download by the highest bidder.