Think back to the COVID days.
How infantile was crypto? It was something that, while having ardent followers, was far from mainstream.
The Crypto-dudes emerged from that era. Of course, they were nothing more than Lambos and price go up. However, it did pave the way for what would eventually start to emerge.
Today, with the entry of major corporations due to the passage of legislation, we are seeing a new world arise. This is, nevertheless, the tip of the iceberg.
Surpassing crypto was AI.
Just 3 years ago, it was absent from general conversation. The reality is that we are a non-AI world before GPT3. That introduction by OpenAI changed everything.
In this article we will discuss the next wave of discussion about AI and how it could eventually unfold.
There are many discussion around AI taking place at the same time. Some is pushback against the advancement or development. Other is the residual of the fear that AI will destroy humanity.
Whatever the basis for the conversation, they are occurring.
One major one to appear almost out of nowhere is the idea of AI and space. This is something that is being promoted by Elon Musk since, after all, he does run a space company.
Like most things, there was initial pushback. This is a combination of a kneejerk reaction along with the fact that most do not understand how technological change occurs.
In fact, there are still many who dispute the idea that AI will be a jobs destroyer. Here is the problem with that viewpoint.
AI is the limitless value creation in the virtual world for intelligence. What this means is that any job that is done on a screen will be taken over by AI. This is not a matter of if it will happen but, rather, the pace.
For those in the "technology always creates more jobs than it destroys camp", how realistic is it that human job creation outpaces something that is advancing at a 10x pace? The answer should be clear.
Humans operate on a linear scale. What we are seeing with AI is a mega-exponential that was never seen before.
The recent narrative about data centers and space can easily be laughed off as a pipedream. That is a dangerous move with how rapidly things are advancing.
Elon Musk is at the center of this with his company SpaceX along with xAI. He is the only one with both components under his umbrella. Naturally, there is competition meaning the likelihood of success by someone will result.
Be forewarned: I am not saying that we are going to see this in the next 12 months. Rocket and chip technology still needs to advance. However, by the end of the decade, we could see this as a practice that is being adopted on a greater scale.
Space is the unlimited generation of energy and materials. Consider that for a second.
If we are dealing with AI being the unlimited value generation of intelligence coupled with the unlimited generation of energy, we are looking at something that is incomprehensible to us.
We already saw the value generation created by a company like Google. The founders are two of the richest people in the world. This should increase since this is also one of the leading AI players.
Big Tech is always looking for ways to get more energy. That is the present bottleneck. Old nuclear sites are being reopened, providing power for the data centers being constructed.
The numbers are getting staggering. A couple days ago it was announced that xAI has launched its Colossus 2 supercomputer online, making it the world’s first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster. Like any metric, this will soon be the norm while the leaders push towards 2 GW.
These are Earth numbers. What do they look like in space? If we have data centers that are basically satellites powered by solar panels, feeding off the sun 24 hours per day, we are looking at a completely different game.
It is the most probable future for AI. For the moment, it is still in the sci-fi category but we are seeing more consideration given to it.
