I agree with you about thermodynamics. When people use words like “limitless,” it’s hard to take what they are saying seriously. But, > AI is expensive as hel

I agree with you about thermodynamics. When people use words like “limitless,” it’s hard to take what they are saying seriously. But, > AI is expensive as hell to run, and more advanced systems might require more and more computation. We can only build so many GPUs While certainly not using techniques like LLMs, we do know you can get some decent intelligence out of a 23 watt analog computer, the human brain. So it is plausible that we could find algos + hardware which use 100W of power, and are quite a bit smarter than a human. Multiply that times a multi-megawatt datacenter, and the availability of some level of super intelligence might appear to be relatively “limitless.”