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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Thoughts Podcast. I'm Tracy Allaway.
And I'm Joe Wiesenthal.
Joe, we like to talk a lot about physical constraints
Yes.
On this show. Right? And this is one reason why AI is a really fascinating area for us right now because there are a lot of physical constraints on what is ultimately the sort of ephemeral technology. And I think that the tension between those two things is really interesting. Right? Like, you type a prompt into chat GPT or Claude or whatever, and it's the sort of, like, disembodied digital platform. Clotted. And you don't necessarily think about the power usage, the real resources, the transformers that have to go into data centers to get compute.
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