Artificial Intelligence was first used as a term in September 1955 when Uranus was at zero degrees Leo; and consolidated by a New Hampshire academic workshop starting 18 June 1956 when there was a super-charged Jupiter Pluto in Leo square Saturn in Scorpio; and Uranus still at zero Leo in an inventive square to Neptune.
This was a continuation of research undertaken by Alan Turing in his theory of computation. His influential 1950 paper showed that “machine intelligence” was plausible.
Turing was born 23 June 1912 2.15 am London. He had a Cancer Sun conjunct a late Pluto Venus in Gemini; with Uranus at 2 degrees Aquarius which tr Pluto is now crossing over.
Uranus shifting sign does appear to be one marker. Uranus is inventive, inspired, propels scientific inquiry but is ‘not of this earth’, in mythological terms the castrated sky god, head-in-the-clouds and not feet-on-the-ground. Which makes sense of what comes next.
From a helpful Telegraph piece:
The over-heated investment to date in AI has outpaced the electrical infrastructure needed to run data centres and sustain the technology on anything like the projected scale.
‘The physical constraint is rock hard. The threat to AI stock mania is not so much lack of energy – but the global bottleneck of transformers, substations, switchgear, transmission lines – leaving aside the acute shortage of skilled workers in the US able to install and run such kit.’
A data centre hub in Texas –– can use 10 million gallons of water a day for evaporative cooling and power generation. Outstanding requests have spiralled to 446 gigawatts (GW) by 2033 = five times peak power use for the entire state of Texas today, or 13 times the UK’s average use.
The Telegraph economics analyst writes: “Don’t track Nvidia chip orders if you want to know where the AI market is heading. Track the metaphorical picks and shovels that make it all possible. You cannot wish away a physical constraint.”
Cheaper AI from China may start to undercut American rivals – achieving 80pc-90pc of the performance at 10pc of the cost.
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