On a stage, under energy prices This creates a lot of inactivity. At the margin, people don’t need to be as careful about how they deploy their AIs. Right now, for example, I’m not paying extra for more use of my current LLMs. So I’m willing to play around with them a lot without worrying about whether a single use is going to accomplish any particular useful end. I just let things play out. The result is some silliness, some jokes, and more indulgence of my random obsessions, plus help with my history and economics questions.
I call it the future of AI with Slack.
It is unclear how long the system will be able to operate in this way. As more institutions work with generative AI, demands for those services will increase. AI companies will have to invest more to meet the growing demand for computing powerAI services will also lose their initial venture-funded leads and be forced to generate profits. In the long term, every use of AI will be a Generative AI will cost a considerable amount of money.
I call it the future of AI without Slack.
Both the use of AI and global economic growth will significantly boost energy demand and therefore energy prices. Using AI’s enormous computational powers could mean significantly higher energy costs. Of course, there are many different variables influencing energy costs, ranging from the future of nuclear fusion, battery technologies, and numerous regulatory decisions. I have no specific predictions, other than to say that energy will remain relatively cheap for households (i.e. voters) and relatively expensive for corporate-owned AIs. To the extent that there is much leeway, AIs themselves will create wild figments of the imagination, especially as their computational capacity and skill improve. AIs will sing to each other, write to each other, talk to each other—as they already do—exchange with each other, and propose additional alternatives that we humans have not yet considered. Evolutionary pressures within AI cultural worlds will determine which of these practices will spread.
If you own some rights to use the AI, you can turn it on and let it “do its thing.” Many people can give their AIs initial instructions for building their culture: “Get inspired by the hippies of the 1960s,” for example, or “try some Victorian poetry.” But most of the work will be done by the AIs themselves. It’s easy to imagine how these productions could quickly become far more numerous than those directed by humans.
With a lot of slack, we expect more movies and videos, which consume a lot of computational power. With less slack, text and poetry will be relatively cheaper and therefore more abundant.
In other words: in the not-too-distant future, the type of culture the world produces could depend on the price of electricity.
It remains to be seen how much interest humans will take in these AI cultural productions. We may find some fascinating, but most are likely to bore us, just as few people sit and listen to whales sing. But even if we do, AI Culture The skeptics are largely right: the sheer volume of these products will have an impact, especially when combined with evolutionary refinement and more efforts directed at humans. Humans might even like some of these productions, which would then be sold for a profit. That money could then be used to fund more AI cultural production, pushing the evolutionary process in a more popular direction.
With high energy prices, AI production will likely adapt to popular culture models, if only to pay the bills. With lower energy prices, there will be more room for the avant-garde, for better or worse. Perhaps we would learn a lot more about the possibilities of twelve-tone rows in music.
A stranger scenario would be AIs bidding for humans’ cultural products, perhaps paying with cryptocurrency. But will they be able to tolerate our incessant narcissism and narcissism? Maybe there will even be a columnist or two who make a living writing for AIs, if only to give them a better idea of what we humans think.
The possibilities are endless and we are only just beginning to understand them. The truth is that we are on the verge of one of the most important cultural revolutions the world has ever seen.
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