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one would think the human race would prioritize solutions like clean, renewable energy, food production, not USING energy to solve "AI problems" like summarizin

• FridgeSeal 2y ago
  How dare you stand in the way of progress!!!! If we just sacrifice, 5 more New York’s worth of power, and the intellectual output of a generation, we will _totes_ get an AI that will finally tell us how to solve global warming!!!!!! (In a way that doesn’t hurt my feelings/money-machine like “use less fossil fuels” and “stop emitting carbon”) /s
• kylehotchkiss 2y ago
  for real, I wonder what this level (collective human time spent on AI) of effort could accomplish if focused on trying to build self-sufficient city scale indoor farming in the wealthier parts of the Middle East (ie somewhere where energy and water need to be figured out at scale), figure out how to make them more efficient, and then use that tech to build those indoor farms in developing countries. ... I already can sense somebody typing "but AI will help us design those better!!!1!!"
• dannersy 2y ago
  Yeah, it's quite sad. It's perplexing how the hype is being maintained at the moment. JP Morgan and Goldman both released reports more or less claiming AI is a deadend until we make some technological or supply chain breakthroughs. This is before we mention that OpenAI (and probably other AI projects/companies) seems to be operating at a significant loss with no foreseeable reprieve. Yet here we are, pouring money, resources, expertise, and people hours into an endless pit of hopes and possibilities of a possibility.