Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

"the annual equivalent amount of power as 7 million laptops running eight hours every day"

what does "the annual equivalent of doing something 8 hours a day" mean?

something running 8 hours a day for 365 days, or 7 million things in this case.

but, yes, if that's a year's total for them too then the length of time is redundant

"7 million laptops" is also a weird choice, but I let that one slide

also the servers won't be running only 8 hours a day so you've just multiplied the number of laptops by 3, effectively. something is missing from the logic there.

so let me get this straight, no-one wants ai, no-one wants the planet to burn, and were ramping up fossil fuels to power ai? fucking awesome.

also smdh at microsoft claiming they can make fusion work in four years, why don't they just build a load of solar farms ffs.

read a good one recently, “ai is whatever doesn’t work yet”

I believe they mean it's 7 million laptops times 8 hours per day in energy

so if they're running the compute stuff in the data center 24/7, they're using 1/3 as much energy per hour as you'd get from running 7 million laptops. presumably they're trying to draw a comparison to people who use a laptop for work and then shut it down at the end of the work day

i personally run seven million laptops eight hours a day just to cover my web browsing needs

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That's right

Siri, demand to speak to the manager

― papal hotwife (milo z)

i spent five years on estrogen so i could become a middle-aged white lady and fuckin' computers are even taking _that_ away from me

DC is canceling covers by an artist who got busted using AI (not busted by DC, who must barely glance at the artwork)

This is amusingly sweary, if also despairing.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

A pretty deep dive into how AI is already used by one terrible company
https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

there have got to be so many AdVons out there

We'll see but its true. This stuff needs a return.

A colleague of mine works in digital training and he mentioned 'Oh we're dropping AI voices'

When I asked why:

'Their prices keep going up, they want so much money for so few voices, they must be getting desperate. We can hire an actor for the same price' pic.twitter.com/p3CjBMqBWT

— Chris Sharpes (@chrissharpesVO) June 25, 2024

Obv its also keeping wages down too

Thank you for the sweary blog, which cuts a little close to the nerve sometimes....

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8pMkOWOUiL/

B-but its going to solve physics.

Sam Altman says the day is approaching when we can ask an AI model to solve all of physics and it can actually do that pic.twitter.com/zExwozzlhY

— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) June 26, 2024

Aside from the fact that no it isn't going to solve all of physics, there's an extraordinary rhetorical sleight of hand in there. What is the future going to look like "even if we solve every safety / misuse / regulatory problem"? No! What is the world going to look like if we *don't* do that (because we can't and won't!)

All it can do is summarize physics textbooks.