# [Abundant intelligence and abundant energy will lead to solving every problem in physics, and eventually we'll be talking not about using nuclear fusion or solar to power AI but a Dyson Sphere](https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1854992581610127621)  *** <iframe title="How To Build The Future: Sam Altman - YouTube" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xXCBz_8hM9w?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" allowfullscreen="" allow="fullscreen" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> #### [[👤Sam Altman]]: I think these are the two main ingredients for everything else we want: truly abundant intelligence and truly abundant energy. Of course, other things matter too, but if we could unlock these two, it would be transformative. We’d be able to come up with better ideas faster and make them happen in the real world. Plus, we’d be able to run lots of AI, which also requires a lot of energy. This would be a huge breakthrough. I’m not sure if it’s surprising that both of these things are advancing at the same time, or if it’s just the natural result of faster technological progress. But it’s definitely an exciting time. Solar energy with storage is improving enough that even if we don’t get a big breakthrough in nuclear energy, we’d still be okay. But lowering the cost of energy and making it more abundant has a direct impact on quality of life. Eventually, we’ll solve all the big problems in physics, so we’ll figure this out—it’s just a matter of when, and I think we deserve it. Someday, we’ll go beyond fusion or other current ideas and maybe even talk about building a Dyson sphere (a structure that could capture the energy of an entire star). That would be incredible. What feels like abundant energy to us now will seem like nothing to our great-grandchildren. There’s a big universe out there with a lot of matter to use. Thanks for watching. #🤖Sam_Altman *** - [[Although AI consumes a lot of energy to train, it saves a lot of energy when deployed as intelligent solutions to problems]] - [[AI will enable mathematics to be done at an unprecedented scale- instead of solving one theorem at a time and solving each problem separately, AI could work on the space of problems and classes of 1000s of problems at a time]] - [[AI will push green electricity use forward and when it comes to emissions, AI will pay for itself]] - [[Abundant intelligence and abundant energy through technology will lead to prosperity for everyone and that the degrowth ideology is "one of the dumbest and most dangerous things we've had in a long time"]] - [[In the next couple of years" we will see incredibly promising demos of nuclear fusion energy and by 2050 we will not be burning much carbon any more]] - [[Nuclear energy will be a "vital, integral" part of powering AI and he hopes that we consume more energy in the future because we can now compress energy into intelligence, leading to improvements in quality of life and prosperity]] - [[Energy and intelligence are the 2 key inputs to techno-abundance and eventually the cost of intelligence will approximate the cost of energy, so we need to invest in energy solutions as the biggest constraint on the cost of AI]] - [[He hopes AI uses an increasing amount of energy because by using more energy for intelligence we can use less of it in other areas]] - [[He will take a bet with anybody that nuclear fusion will be economically possible within 5 years]] - [[Building more AI data centers and investing in the energy infrastructure to power them will paradoxically solve energy issues much quicker]] - [[the day is approaching when we can ask an AI model to solve all of physics and it can actually do that]]