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The 40% investment could presumably go into jobs and infrastructure that might be more durable.
by goalieca 1y ago
The 40% investment could presumably go into jobs and infrastructure that might be more durable.
- wing-_-nuts 1y agoThat 40% investment used to be sitting in giant cash slushfunds on company balance sheets. This isn't government investment. It would have never been spent on 'infrastructure'. On the upside, even if AI is a bubble and implodes spectacularly we're going to have metric tons of compute available for climate models, drug discovery and anything else that requires a super computer to model.
- diffeomorphism 1y agoWill we? The hardware you want for AI and the hardware you want for super computing seem to have different priorities, e.g. concerning floating point precision.
- wing-_-nuts 1y agocompute is compute, yes. Maybe some older models might have to be rewritten to take advantage of a gpu farm's parallel processing capabilities, but humanity will ultimately benefit if the current AI boom fizzles
- Spivak 1y agoI think you would find a large political block that would be more than supportive of economic stimulus taking the form of a public jobs and training program to improve infrastructure, landscaping, and other public works. I personally would implement it as a "civilian military" to make it a cool high-status line of work that people might choose for a few years out of civic duty. Uniforms, ranks, bases, parades, you get your food/housing provided, you get 'deployed' on projects. Get your college paid for if you stay on long enough.
- thmsths 1y agoAnd there is a precedent for that the Civilian Service Corp, which was created as part of the new deal. If you go to a national/state park there is a good chance they built some of that infrastructure.
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- stocksinsmocks 1y agoLLMs are infrastructure.