What Will Power the AI Revolution? | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU
As artificial intelligence transforms the world, it’s triggering an unprecedented demand for energy. So where will that power come from—and what does it mean for America’s future? Mark Mills, executive director of the National Center for Energy Analytics (@energyrealities )
explains what history tells us about innovation and the unstoppable force of progress.
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Transcript:
What Will Power the AI Revolution?
Presented by Mark Mills
Here’s a law of the universe: Revolutionary inventions lead to massive new demands for energy.
Think about it: the steam engine led to a massive new demand for coal. The automobile led to a massive new demand for gasoline. The commercial jetliner led to a massive new demand for jet fuel. The light bulb – or the air conditioner? Massive new electricity demands.
Here’s a second law of the universe: When new energy demands arise, supply inevitably follows.
Right now, we’re in the early days of another revolutionary invention: Artificial intelligence.
AI is a big deal, perhaps the biggest in history. That’s why Google, Meta, and dozens of other tech giants are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to deploy it.
Skeptics wonder if it will pay off.
History, however, suggests that it will.
Like all earlier tech revolutions, AI not only creates new kinds of services, but dramatically increases productivity.
This is important because, over the last two decades, America’s productivity growth has slowed. When that happens, real wages decrease, and the economy creates fewer jobs.
“Wait a second,” I can hear you saying. “I heard that AI is going to trigger a jobs apocalypse — or worse. I’ve seen The Terminator and The Matrix. I know how this goes.”
That makes for good science fiction, but it’s not how tech revolutions play out.
Just as the steam engine, automobile, and jetliner boosted economic growth, so will artificial intelligence. It’s hard to predict exactly how — which scares some people — but odds are high that history will repeat.
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thanks and love to hear this view point, and would like to study more of it.
Anybody remember the Luddites? Seems to me the "green new deal" proponents are to AI what the Luddites were to the industrial revolution. Want a good read about "Luddite" thinking? Check out "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey; and interesting novel about radical resistance to change through technological advancement. I do not advocate any such behavior, I just like reading, especially well written work that is relevant to changing times. The only thing we can be sure of is change!
Just ask AI how can we feed you.Problem solved. This guys wildly optimistic.
Ya, all of sudden Bill Gates states that we're NOT in a climate crisis because he needs the energy for AI now. This is also proof that there never was a "climate emergency!" Liars!
What about the water these data centers use? The private property, mostly farms, being graded and turned into sterile buildings, hundreds of acres at a time. Then there’s the constant noise and in ground vibrations. Not to mention, what data needs to be processed, all health records, banking info, id, our lives tracked 24/7, available to the governing authorities, whatever their whim?
Nuclear is the way to go, the better we get with fission energy the closer we get to fusion energy.
Either this guy is misinformed or a propagandist, because AI isn't increasing productivity, isn't creating new jobs, and isn't the reason for a flatline productivity. Even the layoffs attributed to AI are not even correct. Talk to the people having to live near these data centers, you will get a much different perspective.
The larger LLMs get, the more inefficient they are and the less the gains and leaps forward. The energy used for LLMs could be vastly more useful in other pursuits, including purpose built AI system with clearly defined requirements and predictable/measurable outcomes.
The layoffs and flatline in productivity are more a symptom of over hiring. In study after study, most AI initiatives are expensive and either outright fail or never deliver the returns promised.
And just wait, when the bill comes due for all the circular investments of the AI companies and tech sector, we are likely going to wish it was like the dot com bust, or the housing market failure…
So, energy resources are infinite? What insanity is this?
When was the last time that you checked real energy production numbers? OPEC can't hit it's targets. Ore grades for Uranium Hexaflouride and coal are falling. The same is true for copper.
Hope is not a strategy.
I laugh every time I hear Artificial Intelligence…Right now it's simply Artificial…The intelligence part is in the mail I guess.
Modular nuclear reactors
Nuclear power is the way!
Look how many people demand that we stick to spoons to protect diging jobs when we have excavator!
Support. but without any numbers, it would be hard for us to judge how true it is. Even worse, we may even doubt if you have logically prepared the presentation. Need to do better
The only thing said, that can be absolutely terrifying, is saying “efficiency DEMOCRATIZES the innovation” No!: democratization has brought nothing but more hell to us! Efficiency LIBERATES the Innovation!
I've heard that in the near term, it is estimated that about half of all white-collar jobs will be eliminated. There will be a lot of displacement and temporary pain associated with this new technology, initially. It is hoped that severance packages and unemployment benefits won't be exhausted before these displaced unemployed individuals are finally reabsorbed into the labor market.
Who cares if we're all sick.
Hopefully it dies soon
I will !
This video was done by AI.
Great explanation, short and clear. Thank you.
Social conformity. D. E. I. b s.
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My concern is that A.I. REWARDS LAZINESS. And human laziness will grow. INNOVATION is what powers America, and neither A.I. nor lazy people are innovative! More people on welfare…..
I'm not averse to fossil fuel use in certain situations, but solar is actually cheaper in many locales where AI centers are likely to be deployed (Texas, Arizona, etc.) even with battery storage to allow continuous use. And it removes vulnerability to fuel price fluctuations (say under the demand load of tons of new AI compute center construction) and the batteries allow for arbitrage if you want to over the grid. There's a reason why so much solar is being deployed by for-profit entities, and it isn't primarily subsidies.
And coal? Why? Not only dirty (and proven to cause all kinds of health problems for citizens and miners), but inefficient and costlier than natural gas (much less solar). And it takes longer to permit and build a fossil fuel plant than a solar array, too, and time is absolutely money (and of the essence) in the AI buildout race.
Note: it's not due to needing "massive amounts of data" that we are building massive AI hardware centers – it's for the compute. You don't spend a billion dollars on GPUs to handle a given amount of data, you do it to enable a larger neural network model to be trained (or used via inference for billions of requests) on that data.
AI will only be improvement if we redistribute the profits it makes to the workers who are made redundant by it.
Plutos desire to give Ghosts a new life through machines…and translate his divine directions
Very interesting.
Economic growth? Absolutely – potentially like never seen before. Job growth? Nope. The opposite. We've never created a technology wholly capable of replacing us in virtually every facet of the economy: between AI doing cognitive labor better and more reliably than we can and humanoid robotics handling the embodied tasks, we will have finally painted ourselves into a corner where we only have face to face personal handling and touch-related occupations. Add in convincing androids and we are done. There will be nothing that we can do that artificial mechanisms can't do better in a productive sense. That's the end of human labor value in a market economy.
Energy is not what worries me about AI, it is the mediocre slop that it produces
I'm not as concerned with what will power AI as I am with controls on how AI is to be implemented, and what is going to be done with the millions of people working in jobs that will be replaced. I am very concerned with the AI singularity, in which AI intelligence surpasses human intelligence, which is arriving much more quickly than predicted.
Nuclear power and abject stupidity.
4:51 I disagree with the 3rd point mentioned here, "Efficiency democratizes the innovation". Its not always the case, in certain instances the innovation is monopolized & capitalized to generate short term profits at the cost of efficiency. For eg, its obvious that nuclear energy (modular forms) is efficient, railways are more efficient than roads, misuse of efficient drugs. But the automobile industry, big oil, big pharma use lobbyists to prevent such disruptive innovation from being implemented. Also another reason why NASA has failed to return to the moon (lack of progress or regression)