First published at 21:37 UTC on May 18th, 2024.
Imagine a solar panel with an odd look to it, that weighs about 200lbs, has outputs on the side for keyboard, monitor, mouse, USB, and a "power input/output" connector with only + and - terminals.
What you are imagining is the only possib…
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Imagine a solar panel with an odd look to it, that weighs about 200lbs, has outputs on the side for keyboard, monitor, mouse, USB, and a "power input/output" connector with only + and - terminals.
What you are imagining is the only possible way we can have viable AI in the future. These would be arrays of integrated circuits the size of the wafers presently used in semiconductor manufacture onto which single supercomputers would be created and then over which rectifying antennas would be created into the integrated circuits. The rectifying antennas, or rectennas, would gather power on a scale about 4x as efficient as solar panels, providing power for the integrated circuits and almost always with power to spare. These IC panels, the size of today's 300Watt or so panels, would be capable of being arrayed together to create more complex networks. Other units of similar design purposed for communication could be made to create a mesh network of all panels on and around earth to create a more vast and powerful supercomputer to host a single global AI. Or they could be networked on smaller scales or used individually for less powerful supercomputers and thus less powerful AI models.
Since these provide their own power, they solve the problem of power needs of coming AI technology. These are therefore the only way to have AI going forward.
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