Yes, we need to think about ways to reduce power. Intelligence isn’t even well-defined for bots.
For most people, AI chat is currently a turn-based game [1] and we should try to keep it that way. Making it into an RTS game by running it faster in a loop could be very bad. Fortunately it’s too expensive to do much of that, for now.
So one idea is to keep it under human supervision. The way I would like AI tools to work is like single-stepping in a debugger, where a person gets a preview of whatever API call it might make before it does it. Already, Langchain and Bing’s automatic search and OpenAI’s plugins violate this principle. At least they’re slow.
AI chatbots will likely get faster. Having some legal minimums on price per query and on API response times could help keep AI mostly a turn-based game, rather than turning into something like robot trading on a stock exchange.
For most people, AI chat is currently a turn-based game [1] and we should try to keep it that way. Making it into an RTS game by running it faster in a loop could be very bad. Fortunately it’s too expensive to do much of that, for now.
So one idea is to keep it under human supervision. The way I would like AI tools to work is like single-stepping in a debugger, where a person gets a preview of whatever API call it might make before it does it. Already, Langchain and Bing’s automatic search and OpenAI’s plugins violate this principle. At least they’re slow.
AI chatbots will likely get faster. Having some legal minimums on price per query and on API response times could help keep AI mostly a turn-based game, rather than turning into something like robot trading on a stock exchange.
[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-turn-based-game...