FiniteBanjo

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

None of that has anything to do with AI consuming upwards of 30% of all power in some US States. None of that has anything to do with AI in 2025 being run on 35% renewable electricity and 50% or more fossil fuels which could have been used by citizens and consumers at lower prices instead.

Even if Elon Musk weren't running illegal Natural Gas generators in Texas to power Grok, even if AI suddenly became 100% solar powered today in some fantasy fiction, it is still producing nothing of value but creating serious risks and we should still shut it down.

Let me try to creat a visual for you:

[///////]
Human-Use Power

[//////////] = [///////] + [///]
All power generated = Human-Use + AI

And in 4 years:

[/////////////] = [///////] + [//////]

You see that? You see how its using more? We're already facing cataclysmic changes in weather patterns risking countless habitats including human ones, and we're going to practically double power consumption so Trump can make a short video of his jet shitting on protestors.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

If you have a plan to do that then that's great but this isn't a situation where anybody is willing to make trades of one or the other.

AI doesn't have a single profitable use case given it generates plagiarism, hallucinations, and liabilities, so there's no reason to keep it.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

We're burning the earth with our power consumption and polluting every online database or repository with hallucinations all for pictures of political figures doing ballet, and it is eventually going to cause a catastrophe, so yes, sooner would be better.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Well that sounds pretty horrible and I would to avoid it...

But if thats all it costs, then...

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 2 months ago

I already made the move over to Stoat.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 2 months ago

In 2020 OpenAI published a paper on AI Scaling Laws which was supposed to show that the diminishing returns from training models on data can be alleviated by increasing model size at the expense of requiring more power and total compute time or in laymens terms "if the result is a 75% chance of being a thing, 4 attempts are more likely to guess it than one attempt".

What it unintentionally showed is that the returns from scaling models at optimal compute time each also diminishes.

Then DeepMind corrected their math in a followup study, illustrating that INFINITE compute time and data will never result in above 94% accuracy.

The AI companies know. They all know. They have always known.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not a bet. The biggest players all know it's a scam. It isn't betting if you already know it will fail qnd you're still profiting in the meantime.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 6 points 2 months ago

All the more reason to link to them directly.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wikipedia still isn't a reliable source, you have to locate the point of your argument and then find the listed source in the citations on the Wikipedia page.

Wikipedia is a great place to find sources, but not as a soruce.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unironically, though. The major models are from China and the USA, neither of which are well known for a history of racial harmony.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago

Gonna collect all kinds of dust and grime.

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