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While it has its uses I have yet to see a single use case, or combination of use cases, that warrants the insane spending. Not to mention the environmental dama

• duped 1y ago
  The people funding this seem to believe that firstly text inference and gradient descent can synthesize a program that can operate on information tasks as good or better than humans, secondly that the only way of generating the configuration data for those programs to work is by powering vast farms of processors doing matrix arithmetic but requiring the worlds most complex supply chain tethered to a handful of geopolitically volatile places, thirdly that those farms have power demands comparable to our biggest metropolises, and finally if they succeed, they'll have unlocked economic power amplification that hasn't been seen since James Watt figured out how to move water out of coal mines a bit quicker. Oh and the really fucky part is half of them just want to get a bit richer, but the other half seem to be in a cult that thinks AI's gross disruption of human economies and our environment is actually the most logically ethical thing to do.
  • yeasku 1y ago
    I tougth what you wrote was crazy wasteful, then I remember the world runs on js.