At a conference last week, Lisa Su, the CEO of chipmaking company AMD, asked her OpenAI counterpart Sam Altman a question referencing ChatGPT’s recent outages: “Are there ever going to be enough GPUs?”
After a chuckle and a pause, Altman said the quiet part out loud. “Theoretically, at some points, you can see that a significant fraction of the power on Earth should be spent running AI compute,” he said. “And maybe we’re going to get there.”
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At a conference last week, Lisa Su, the CEO of chipmaking company AMD, asked her OpenAI counterpart Sam Altman a question referencing ChatGPT’s recent outages: “Are there ever going to be enough GPUs?”
After a chuckle and a pause, Altman said the quiet part out loud. “Theoretically, at some points, you can see that a significant fraction of the power on Earth should be spent running AI compute,” he said. “And maybe we’re going to get there.”