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sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

No point in replying. Everyone here is convinced that AI is exclusively a scam to inflate stock prices and brings 0 benefits or productivity gains in any field ever nor is it going to anytime in the future.

This is not to say that there isn’t a bubble or that AI will solve all problems in the world, but it does have plenty of use cases and many are already in place. For instance many 100s of likely rape/violence cases have been discovered at my local hospital by running the xrays and scans through AI, which hadn’t been identified by the doctors by themselves.

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Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This discussion is not only for today’s participants. I also speak to the lurkers. I believe that this fad of hating AI will pass. That over time the benefits will become obvious.

I also do not conflate AI with the capitalism surrounding it. Just like the industrial revolution brought forth great progress through greed and social malfeasance, this revolution is also a messy birth. But no one can dispute the benefits that came when horse power was replaced with horsepower. In the end, this will be the same.

In the meanwhile, we can hold the industry to high standards. Sound levels. Water usage. Energy consumption. My company supports setting standards on all these. That would produce a level field as we already do it volunterally. I’m all for suing bad actors into bankruptcy. Using on-site gas turbines for primary power is a crime against humanity. As is draining the water supply for cooling.

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- sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Great points.
  
  Especially regarding the environmental aspects, I feel like the whole thing could just be solved by zoning datacentres as industrial and applying slightly stricted regulation.
  
  AI doesn’t kill the environment by itself, it just needs a lot of energy and there needs to be some planning put into providing clean energy for datacentres without spinning gas turbines or raising energy prices immensely for the average Joe.
  
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  - Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    These guys built in nowhere, ND.
    
    ir.applieddigital.com/…/applied-digital-announces…
    
    Why? Energy surplus in the region. So much electricity that the grid couldn’t accept it all. From wind farms. These are the kind of places to target.
    
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III@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Cool, you invaded the privacy of numerous people using AI… you must be proud.

The issue isn’t that AI brings no value - it is the cost of that value. And many people aren’t falling for the extremely overrated value that companies are claiming. Promised value coming from people who have a very long track record of not being truthful, lying for their own profit no matter who it harms. And then there are some who would rather not ruin the environment for those unfulfilled promises.

But sure, throw an anecdote out to prove everyone else wrong.

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- Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Altman and Musk are verified shit. This is common knowledge all across the industry.
  
  Public companies don’t set their value - shareholders do. Insiders know the value hasn’t arrived yet. We build because customers pay us to build. The customer fronts the construction costs based on the signed contract. Investors buy or sell based on public knowledge.
  
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- sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nobody’s privacy was violated. Privacy laws are very strict in Italy and before any research is done on health data you have to sign and tick the box to specifically allow it. The data was also not handed to any company as the research was run by a local university.
  
  How was anybody’s privacy violated? Also I didn’t do anything given that I just read this on a newspaper and am not in any way connected to the hospital.
  
  You are judgmental and ignorant. You think, as many other people here on lemmy, that you are right about everything all the time. I don’t deny that the AI industry has very big flaws. I fully agree and I believe that in the long term we will need public ownership of AI companies. I just disagree with the fact that AI is wholly bad and brings 0 positives.
  
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