What is Artificial Inteligence
The way AI is talked up in the press makes it sound like it is something new and powerful. I don't claim to know much about it but see it from an outsider's point of view. It is actually just faster and more comprehensive access to information that is already, and has been for a while, stored. It is not "powerful" in the sense of new ideas or strategies. One could argue, I'm sure, there are creative ideas about which information to use and how to use it. This is something different, it seems to me, than creating something that did not exist before. More discussion is showing up about the costs of storing and retrieving all this data. It takes huge amount of electricity. This use of electricity requires water for cooling. I heard the in the State of Virginia data centers use a huge percentage of the total power generated in the state. In some states without large amounts of water that is becoming a limiting issue. Then there is the issue of locating the data center...