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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Just to make it clear: I do not believe this and I am convinced good old human greed is what's really driving the ai and data-center insanity. Also, LLMs are not and will never become AGI.

Having said that: if an artificial super-intelligence were to emerge, building more data-centers could well be one of it's primary goals. Since it wouln't be concerned with consequences for the environment or humanity, it could pursue this at any cost, with only speed and scale in mind. Convincing financial markets and business elites of the necessity of such a buildout would be the ideal way of achieving results. In this scenario, fighting this buildout by any means would be the only sensible response and of utmost importance.

It's a somewhat funny, somewhat depressing thought for me and I literally had it in the shower. Surely I can't be the first to come up with this, but I also can't remember having read it before.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean if a human told it how to do that and to do it.

But AI can't even figure out how many fingers people should have in images because it just pattern matches. Doesn't understand anything.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's matching the pattern of unchecked unpunished corporate greed

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Because it's being instructed by unpunished , unchecked, corporate greed.

I had friends in CS always worried some real megalomaniac AI would take over the world.

I was never worried about that. I figured megalomaniac humans would just use tech to do it. Maybe try to blame it on the program to get out of accountability.

Looks like they are already trying to make claims of such to lay the groundwork for that defense at a later date.