Artificial intelligence can appear to be many different things-a whole host of programs with seemingly little common ground. Sometimes AI is a conversation partner, an illustrator, a math tutor, a facial-recognition tool. But in every incarnation, it is always, always a machine, demanding almost unfathomable amounts of data and energy to function.
The computational power needed to train top AI programs has doubled every six months over the past decade and may soon become untenable. According to a recent study, AI programs could consume roughly as much electricity as Sweden by 2027.
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