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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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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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"AI" is the wrong term, and I hate that it's been implanted. These are prediction models.
Prediction models can be extremely beneficial. Think of weather forecasting, for example. Being able to predict power usage across a grid to prevent failures and increase efficiency and properly deploy resources. Even LLMs can be useful to give you a starting point for discovering information that you are short on. (Don't trust implicitly, double check, but you'll have new search terms to use.)
Remember, too, that the publicly available models are relatively weak. Specialized models with well-curated training data are going to be much better at doing their specific prediction. And we're still in the beginning of this era. It's going to be crazy in ten years.
With regard to resource intensity, it'sy understanding that creation of images and video is what demands the most computing power. And that kind of usage sucks all the way around.
Generating text uses just as much energy..
I’m very anti-AI but it’s mostly because of the impact it’s having on the capitalistic west. People are going nutty mode over it, and it’s unhealthy across a huge variety of variables.
However from a purely pragmatic take on usefulness, yours is fairly based.
Same here. The way it's being deployed and used and trusted by certain portions of the general public is troubling. There's a great potential for good, but it doesn't seem like it's going that way.