@rohanpaul_ai: Ex Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt: AI may hit a money wall before it hits a power wall. "The real limit to AI is not ener…
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt states that the real limit to AI is financial, not energy, estimating that 10 gigawatts of compute could cost half a trillion dollars, which only a few entities like the US or China can afford.
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