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.
AI art is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. The human heart, mind and hand can never be replicated imho.
This article may provide a bit of insight about when the AI bubble might burst.
https://astrostyle.com/financial-cycles-and-astrology-great-compression/
What AI22 said.
Thank you for this post. AI is truly the solution to a problem nobody had, designed to enrich and empower a handful of sociopaths, to the vast detriment of the rest of us.
Even scarier than the energy requirements are the demands on finite water resources, and the idiocy of placing AI facilities in semi-desert areas such as Texas where water is already in desperately short supply and is needed to, you know, support human life (quite apart from its critical agricultural uses).
That’s not even mentioning the slightly less existential, but still significant, knock-on effects of job loss and accelerated impoverishment of the vast majority, going hand-in-hand with the further enrichment of the very few. (If anyone believes the benevolent overlords’ tale-spinning about “universal basic income” that allows people to live in dignity, then God bless.) It’s like these AI tech potentates are actively trying to destroy what remains of society as they hasten a global extinction-level event.
Is there anything in the astrology to indicate a) when/if the AI financial bubble will burst and b) if/when humanity will move past this madness, reining in this rapacious technology and either killing it off or harnessing it for the common good? Thank you.