Nuclear fusion will power superhuman AI, says ChatGPT boss
The IndependentSign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an in-depth conversation with technologist Lex Fridman, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that future AI will require vast amounts of energy as its capabilities improve and it reaches a level that surpasses human intelligence. The only power source capable of meeting this, according to Mr Altman, is nuclear fusion, which mimics the natural reactions that occur within the Sun to produce energy. We’re going to want an amount of compute that’s just hard to reason about right now.” Mr Altman said nuclear fusion was fundamental for solving the “energy puzzle” of providing the computing power to develop next-generation artificial intelligence. The OpenAI co-founder, who has a net worth of around $2 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has personally invested $375 million in a US-based nuclear fusion firm called Helion Energy.
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