Submitted 2 days ago by Valuy@lemmy.zip to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://apnews.com/article/nvidea-huang-artificial-intelligence-8334abcbc6ed8d3d7889b640ec6fa05b
I remember seeing videos in the early 80s when US federal seatbelt requirements went into effect and everyone in an uproar about it. Screaming government overreach, the nanny state, etc. Now anyone not wearing a seatbelt is an idiot.
AI will end up being a useful utility and those opposing it the loudest now will no longer be loud about it. Right now it’s expensive, it’s inefficient, it uses too many resources much like cars from the 80s compared to cars now.
Tell me you don’t know how the technology works without telling me. The “good” models are huge. They make servers larger than your local town centre run on full load for every query. There’s no throttle to hold them back, as that doesn’t help. It’ll always be full speed ahead. And the results are based on probability, with a factor of bullshit baked in as part of the design. Yes, computers become more efficient over time, but that doesn’t help when you keep pushing them to go full speed all the time. The thirstiest CPU in the original Pentium family used to consume 17.3 Watts at full speed. Today, the Intel Xeon w9-3595X slurps 462 Watts given the chance. The Nvidia B200 datacenter GPU has a TDP of 1000 Watts. And data centers have thousands of these running, full speed, for LLMs to serve us hallucinated “facts”.
So AI of the future will be more useful in more cases and use less energy and other resources. Based on... nothing within the AI technology, but on a very loose analogy.
Seatbelts in cars actually do what they say on the tin. LLMs have some uses but for most things they don’t do what they say on the tin. AI boosters and bad comparisons. Can’t name a better duo
Fuck cars too.
Wow, poking the anti-AI and the anti-car people — not realizing that Venn diagram is concentric circles. (Intentionally using — just like my AI overlords)
Violence is no solution but goddamn would I celebrate if that man got shot.
Cars don’t have the ability to know more about me than I know myself, or empty my savings account, or decide that I’m a threat to the prevailing order by reading through the sum of my online content, or manipulate or replace me.
Plumbers needed.
He was alive before cars were around? This is mildly concerning. I guess that zoro ranch baby jerky really increases their lifespans
vane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Funny thing is that if we all play on the streets for a month all their money will be worth nothing.