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> He’s said that he sees nuclear energy as one of the best ways to solve the problem of growing demand for AI, and the energy that powers the technology, withou

by ffhhj 2y ago

> He’s said that he sees nuclear energy as one of the best ways to solve the problem of growing demand for AI, and the energy that powers the technology, without relying on fossil fuels. Of all the things in which a scarce planet resource could be spent on.

workingdog 2y ago
I'm an AI pessimist, but even I see the value in the current large language models. If we can do it for the price of a few cracked atoms, that would be better.
- singularity2001 2y ago
  Instead of adding more energy they should focus on photonics which is 10000x more efficient computing TsingHua university just published another step forward to feasibility
- ffhhj 2y ago
  I'm an AI optimist but LLMs are still too primitive and burning resources too soon on them is a waste. Imagine nuclear powered ENIACs. The research should continue and Close AI haven't got to the pinacle of AI.
- hakfoo 2y ago
  I think what would make LLMs much more viable is if they had more of a sense of credibility. They've developed a reputation of being very confident generators of bullshit, and that's completely fatal in compliance-oriented environments. If I ask Zesty Autocorrect to generate a snippet for me, but then I have to carefully inspect and review it to make sure it actually does what I wanted, I may as well spend the same amount of time just building what I wanted in the first place. Trading off 30 minutes of coding and testing for 45 minutes of code review and testing isn't a win. I will admit to having found a use case for an AI model; I spend a fair bit of time using Stable Diffusion locally trying to roll some new desktop wallpaper, but if my anime-style vampire prince has a hallucinated third nipple, nobody's going to die or go bankrupt.
xnx 2y ago
> Of all the things in which a scarce planet resource could be spent on. ... creating thinking machines that are capable of things no human mind could accomplish in a million lifetimes might be the best.
- ffhhj 2y ago
  Research is what creates, bloating Internet and devices with AI parrots is just sales.
kylehotchkiss 2y ago
Better than spending it on minting NFTs and shitcoins though.

by ffhhj 2y ago

workingdog 2y ago

I'm an AI pessimist, but even I see the value in the current large language models. If we can do it for the price of a few cracked atoms, that would be better.

singularity2001 2y ago
Instead of adding more energy they should focus on photonics which is 10000x more efficient computing TsingHua university just published another step forward to feasibility
ffhhj 2y ago
I'm an AI optimist but LLMs are still too primitive and burning resources too soon on them is a waste. Imagine nuclear powered ENIACs. The research should continue and Close AI haven't got to the pinacle of AI.
hakfoo 2y ago
I think what would make LLMs much more viable is if they had more of a sense of credibility. They've developed a reputation of being very confident generators of bullshit, and that's completely fatal in compliance-oriented environments. If I ask Zesty Autocorrect to generate a snippet for me, but then I have to carefully inspect and review it to make sure it actually does what I wanted, I may as well spend the same amount of time just building what I wanted in the first place. Trading off 30 minutes of coding and testing for 45 minutes of code review and testing isn't a win. I will admit to having found a use case for an AI model; I spend a fair bit of time using Stable Diffusion locally trying to roll some new desktop wallpaper, but if my anime-style vampire prince has a hallucinated third nipple, nobody's going to die or go bankrupt.

xnx 2y ago

> Of all the things in which a scarce planet resource could be spent on. ... creating thinking machines that are capable of things no human mind could accomplish in a million lifetimes might be the best.

ffhhj 2y ago
Research is what creates, bloating Internet and devices with AI parrots is just sales.

kylehotchkiss 2y ago

Better than spending it on minting NFTs and shitcoins though.