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Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

We came, we saw, we talked, we schmoozed, we toured the Computer History Museum!

Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled " Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What Comes Next," hosted in partnership with IBM. We spoke with Jeff Ball, scholar-in-residence of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance at Stanford University; Joanna Wong, solutions architect for AI & Storage at IBM; and Ars' own Senior Science Editor Dr. John Timmer. This has been a contentious topic before, and as recently as our Ars Frontiers virtual conference in 2023, security experts have expressed unease at the idea of AI-generated code, given most LLMs' habit of wildly confabulating things at the drop of a hat.

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