Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Intelligent agent" in English language version.
We started small, as the question of how much a single query costs is vitally important to understanding the bigger picture. That's because those queries are being built into ever more applications beyond standalone chatbots: from search, to agents, to the mundane daily apps we use to track our fitness, shop online, or book a flight. The energy resources required to power this artificial-intelligence revolution are staggering, and the world's biggest tech companies have made it a top priority to harness ever more of that energy, aiming to reshape our energy grids in the process.
Lots of AI companies are building reasoning models, which "think" for longer and use more energy. They're building hardware devices, perhaps like the one Jony Ive has been working on (which OpenAI just acquired for $6.5 billion), that have AI constantly humming along in the background of our conversations. They're designing agents and digital clones of us to act on our behalf. All these trends point to a more energy-intensive future (which, again, helps explain why OpenAI and others are spending such inconceivable amounts of money on energy).
In other words, flawed products won't stop tech companies' push to automate everything—the AI-saturated future will be imperfect at best, but it is coming anyway.
We started small, as the question of how much a single query costs is vitally important to understanding the bigger picture. That's because those queries are being built into ever more applications beyond standalone chatbots: from search, to agents, to the mundane daily apps we use to track our fitness, shop online, or book a flight. The energy resources required to power this artificial-intelligence revolution are staggering, and the world's biggest tech companies have made it a top priority to harness ever more of that energy, aiming to reshape our energy grids in the process.
Lots of AI companies are building reasoning models, which "think" for longer and use more energy. They're building hardware devices, perhaps like the one Jony Ive has been working on (which OpenAI just acquired for $6.5 billion), that have AI constantly humming along in the background of our conversations. They're designing agents and digital clones of us to act on our behalf. All these trends point to a more energy-intensive future (which, again, helps explain why OpenAI and others are spending such inconceivable amounts of money on energy).
In other words, flawed products won't stop tech companies' push to automate everything—the AI-saturated future will be imperfect at best, but it is coming anyway.
