Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA

Over time, plenitude is a process in which more and more goods and services are provided to more and more people, as technologies advance and costs come down to grant new free ‘indulgences’ every year.

The chief challenge, as Lee sees it, is how to make AI smarter without just throwing more data and computing power at it. His hope rests on the iterative tweaking of algorithms that improve the performance of AI at a “geometric pace.”

While computing power grows in exponential leaps, the pace of transition to a green economy that would cleanly fuel that growth lags far behind.