It’s kind of fun to picture AI agents working during the day and resting at night. Maybe that’s the true AGI moment.
In context, this will depend on the relative costs of GPUs and energy storage, or the relative value of AI vs other uses of electricity that can be time-shifted. I would happily run my dryer or dishwasher during the daytime instead of at night in order to get paid to let OpenAI deliver a few million extra tokens. Liberalizing current electricity market participation and the ability to provide ancillary services has a lot of unrealized potential. If you have AGI, and an actually-well-functioning electricity market, it’s not likely to be the AI that has to shut down first when solar production decreases.
In context, this will depend on the relative costs of GPUs and energy storage, or the relative value of AI vs other uses of electricity that can be time-shifted. I would happily run my dryer or dishwasher during the daytime instead of at night in order to get paid to let OpenAI deliver a few million extra tokens. Liberalizing current electricity market participation and the ability to provide ancillary services has a lot of unrealized potential. If you have AGI, and an actually-well-functioning electricity market, it’s not likely to be the AI that has to shut down first when solar production decreases.