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I doubt that any reasonable person is actually counting on that. It's a new, and potentially very lucrative, technology. Given time the cost will go down, not
by mapontosevenths 2mo ago
I doubt that any reasonable person is actually counting on that.
It's a new, and potentially very lucrative, technology. Given time the cost will go down, not up. The way that will happen is increased efficiency.
Do I know HOW that will happen? No, but I know that it will. It always has, and there are huge motivations for making it happen.
- Fricken 2mo agoThe most reasonable and sober-minded people are counting on that: https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/stellungnahmen-der-dpg/klima-energie/klimaaufruf/ https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/...
- mapontosevenths 2mo agoI don't speak German, so I had to machine translate it... but I don't see anything about anyone counting on AI to magically solve climate change in that reference. I've seen a few dim-bulbs or sales-types on social media say things of that sort, but never a serious adult.
- Fricken 2mo agoHuh? Oh, I thought you were talking about the climate change part of my comment. Everything about the data centre buildout is a bet on the singularity, that's the whole operating premise behind what all AI researchers are doing. The most grandiose charlatans of silicon valley talk about that stuff and everyone else has got in line whether or not they believe it. Trillions of dollars have spent on bringing about AGI. If it doesn't usher in AGI (and it won't) then it's all a catastrophically stupid thing to do.