Ramez Naam

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373 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The ocean's really big.

So I like these things while enormous in some sense are tiny compared to the scale of what's out there.

They have the ability to steer themselves to some extent.

They mostly follow the current, but they can, you know,

set their course.

And all of everything we build has some failure rate.

In space, we'll have risk of orbital debris.

We'll have things break for various reasons.

We'll have solar storms.

But if you distribute the compute enough, losing one node is not catastrophic.

Yeah, that's a really good question.

So when we look at AI compute, we're talking about data centers doing two different things.

One is training the AI models, and the other is inference, serving up when you go chat with ChatGPT or Cloud or whatnot.

For training, you need massive data centers

with incredibly high-speed interconnect, like optical connections between all the racks.

Maybe a gigawatt in one place is what people want.

And so you're not going to use distributed systems for training.

But for inference, when you're just asking a question to an AI model, you might be talking to one rack of servers.

You might be talking to 20 GPUs at once.

And so that can be pretty easily done with a distributed model.

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