The AI Bottleneck: Power, Competition, and Emerging Techniques
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In this episode of Hashtag Trending, host Jim Love dives into substantial topics such as Microsoft's AI bottleneck, which surprisingly turns out to be a shortage of electricity rather than GPUs.
The episode further discusses the intense competition Nvidia faces from Qualcomm, AMD, Google, and Amazon in the AI chip market, and a new prompting technique called 'Verbalized Sampling' that could improve AI's usefulness by generating multiple answers with probability estimates. Additionally, the episode touches on intriguing research from Anthropic, revealing that their Claude AI model shows signs of recognizing changes in its internal state, a phenomenon that raises questions about the future capabilities and safety of AI.
00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Message
00:53 Microsoft's AI Bottleneck: Power and Space
02:21 The AI Chip War: New Competitors Emerge
04:49 Verbalized Sampling: A New AI Prompting Technique
06:16 Anthropic's Claude: Signs of Self-Awareness?
10:21 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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