- Just because it hasn’t happened yet does not mean the concern for the future is fictional.
- The unemployment rate says nothing about whether the jobs being filled are good.
I would propose flaying Sam Altman live on TV and shifting his resources to scientists and researchers who will do actual productive things with the money.
I’m not against “AI” as an abstract idea. In the context of obvious scam artists producing obscene amounts of waste to prop up an unsustainable con, I’m against it.
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I think it’s better to be one of the haves rather than the have nots
That’s what the oligarchs think too. Difference is they know it’s the Highlander universe: there can be only one.
These things might have to be secured like military bases, only a matter of time before tech Luigi’s start flying drone bombs at them
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Date centres enrage me twice as much as data centers.
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These tools are “free” only because scam artists are burning unfathomable amounts of useful capital to prop them up.
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The data centres are probably causing all the smoke from Canada.
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It’s the guillotine thread
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I’m also not really concerned about it, I was just referencing statements like
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that he expects AI to write half the company’s code within the next year; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said as much as 30% of his company’s code is currently being written by AI.
Sam Altman made repeated bold assertions about the impact that the new technology would have on jobs.
He has said that AI will “probably replace most of the jobs people do today,” that entire job categories will be “totally, totally gone,”
Elon Musk: AI and robots will replace all jobs
Obviously this is just typical CEO bluster but just because we don’t think the Torment Nexus is real right now doesn’t mean we should just idly watch as they try to bring it into existence.
You might think they would be less alarmist, but I guess people buying stock don’t think beyond the next year or next quarter.
But…anyway, it’s not just the CEOs. Almost everyone familiar with the industry is at least concerned.
The most worrisome are probably people who think everything might be fine…only if things that are never going to happen, happen.
definitely 
There’s some hope if the bubble bursts. Unfortunately that’s mostly out of our control.
Ok, hope is good. The dot com bubble burst, right? Uh, ok, stocks went down for a few months. And AI isn’t just an investor fad. It works and it will do most every job that anyone sitting in front of a computer or a phone does now and lots of other things too. And the military isn’t going to stop pursuing AI just because the stock prices drop. And the rest of the world is going to keep investing as well.
Why are hyper-scale data centers needed for AI? I’ve done 0 research, but I’m not understanding why they are needed. Is AI just brute force? Where’s the I in that?
That process will slow if there’s not enough demand to justify the cost, which is immense. I don’t think we can stop it. We can stall for time though.
I’m more depressed for the sake of my children than for myself.
Got to start mine shaft preparations.
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There is already evidence that data centers are creating their own ecosystems. I’d feel better about that if Bernie’s sovereign wealth fund comes to fruition.
I takes an enormous amount of energy to do AI. Organic brains have evolved for billions of years to be as energy-efficient as possible and yet your human brain consumes like 20% of the calories you eat.
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I get that. Sometimes I feel like all life is is stalling for time.
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This is a bit of a misunderstanding of the real issue I think. Sure there are examples of these companies getting away ignoring regulations but that’s not the main problem. The main problem is for the most part they are getting approved by following the rules. It’s just that rules never contemplated hyperscale data centres design or scale. Regulators are forced to approve things because they are forced to fit square peg into a round hole and technically they do follow the rules.
That’s why things like the one year moratorium New York just enacted makes such good sense. We need time to understand how these things should be regulated because we don’t know enough yet about their real impacts.