I never said or implied that it’s useless. You’re deriving meaning where there is none. It’s a tool and tools are always useful. Here’s an example of a supercomputer (not AI) designed to solve unresolved mathematical equations and scientific problems
Same idea, doesn’t need AI to do it.
My point was, and is, that it cannot replicate human intelligence and that it doesn’t have intelligence on its own.
How do you get “it isn’t useful” out of that? If you have to extract a wild interpretation out of what (I thought) were pretty clear words, your argument isn’t as strong as you think it is.
And yes, I read the article. It’s speculative for existing data centers, which are the problem. There’s no incentive for them to spend the money to switch to closed loop.
New data centers aren’t incentivized to go that route either aside from the environmental impact. It would be nice if they were, though.
Closed loop isn’t viable for data centers.
Do me a favor and quote my original text where I said they can’t do anything useful. I’ll wait.
Data centers use evaporative cooling, not closed loop. You can’t really scale up in a closed loop system. Evaporative utilizes a ton of water.
As for point 3, supercomputers have been assisting with scientific problems for decades now. This isn’t new, just new tech applied. Your article is actually the best way to use AI, imo. It will be better at finding patterns in data than humans will ever be.
But my point is to say would it have been able to discover that those math problems existed in the first place?
No. The answer is no.
This is nice and everything, but this whole thing is just a huge marketing push by AI companies. AI is not going to kill us. At least not directly (see point 2).
You need prohibitively expensive equipment to host AI. That equipment needs to be plugged in. If it were truly dangerous, you just need to unplug it.
You need a lot of water to cool the equipment that can run a supposed super intelligence. If we pass regulations about how much of our environment these data centers can destroy, that would curb the abilities of this superintelligence.
AI is fucking dumb. AI is a misnomer since it doesn’t actually have any intelligence. It is derivative and cannot perform any necessary tasks that actually drive intelligence. For example, it will be able to tell you every established law in any field of science because it has that information in its corpus, but it will never be able to establish a new law. Or discover anything new in any field.
This whole thing is a push to get people to believe that AI is more capable than it really is so that these companies can draw more money from investors so that 'they’d be able to implement proper safeguards."
It’s not irrational. They’re being paid to actively denigrate and deny the benefits of clean energy.
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Is this article presuming that this isn’t part of the plan? Auto manufacturers think our brains work like “oh no, my connected service was end-of-lifed. Guess I gotta buy a new car.”
I dunno. The current state of the world might be making me more conspiracy-minded, but this feels like it was always part of the plan.
Introduce surveillance tech that Peter Thiel can use to spy/sell/whatever, announce that you’re using it, expecting people to get angry, and now in the 11th hour, after harvesting all the data they get to announce “we’re removing the evil software! We’re the good guys again!”
I recognize that the current state of affairs is having me see demons everywhere, but I just can’t bring myself to give discord a pat on the back.
Sorry, I only have a YouTube link for this: https://youtu.be/ROFblZ_-9q4
If you haven’t seen it, Wyse (Ring competitor) released a pretty funny ad about this.
Nah, since the 80s at the earliest. The wealthiest were taxed up to 90% and corporations didn’t get the tax loopholes they have now until Reagan took office.
Good example, especially given that it looks like a Russian oligarchy is where we’ve been headed since 2016
I’m not an economist, so here’s my ass talking, but I don’t think your example scales out. I think you’re making the mistake of equating the stock market to the economy. It isn’t.
Not everyone wins in a failing economy. If one billionaire makes out, three more lose money.
Windows 12 will be the first vibe-coded OS
Innovate only when it’s necessary. In the meantime, perfect what exists.
If they’re selling bitlocker as “full-disk encryption”, doesn’t that open them up to a class action since encryption with a backdoor isn’t encryption?
These specs were probably AI generated.
*Disney loses over $1 Billion
Tomorrow google maps will show Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico and they will put black history month back on their calendar.