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In Texas, where 10 of the 34 mines are connected to the state’s grid, the increased demand has caused electric bills for power customers to rise nearly 5 percent, or $1.8 billion per year

After accounting for the savings and revenue from each of the strategies, Riot told investors its electricity cost in 2022 was 2.96 cents per kilowatt-hour.By comparison, the average price for other industrial businesses in Texas was 7.2 cents. For residents, it was 13.5 cents.

While lawyers try to sort through this mess, Kulash has been busy recording OK Go’s follow-up to their 2014 LP Hungry Ghosts. They were about halfway done with it when they had to take an 18-month break so Kulash and his wife, Kristin Gore, daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, could co-direct the upcoming Apple movie The Beanie Bubble.

It reminds us that many of the bad uses of AI are a reflection of humanity more than they are a reflection of AI technology itself.

Humanity has achieved sufficient technological power to change the course of life and the entire global ecosystem, but we seem to lack the perspective to choose wisely between alternative futures.

And instead what we should conclude is that tasks—like writing essays—that we humans could do, but we didn’t think computers could do, are actually in some sense computationally easier than we thought.

In effect, we’re “opening up the brain of ChatGPT” (or at least GPT-2) and discovering, yes, it’s complicated in there, and we don’t understand it—even though in the end it’s producing recognizable human language.

Implementationally

I like tools that let me do more, not do it for me.

These hybrid human-AI systems will not be detectable from their output.

Bills that are too big to fail are ripe for hacking by microlegislation

For many technologists, the allure of digital tools is the possibility of emancipation, a world where we can collaborate to make things without bosses or masters. But for the bosses and masters, automation's allure is the possibility of getting rid of workers, shattering their power, and replacing them with meeker, cheaper, more easily replaced labor.