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Motherfuckers have been buying people out of their homes, emptying entire neighborhoods just to get access to land near power plants and near water sources to build their AI data centers, they've been polluting drinking water sources and siphoning the electricity of entire towns, and polluting like crazy, and they're affraid society might not accept their useless AI porn generating bullshit? Because let's face it, that's what it's mostly used for.
Where did they buy neighborhoods to bulldoze them?
Here's one example:
There's also Itasca in Illinois
I bet you can find more
The rush to build data centers has become the new Oklahoma land grab, with providers competing for prime real estate. In one instance, a data center provider bought 55 homes only to demolish them to make room for its campus. Stream Data Centers, a Dallas-based provider of colocation and custom data-center construction services, last November purchased 55 homes in a 34-acresubdivision of Elk Grove Village, Illinois. According to published reports (here and here), Stream paid an average of $950,000 for each house.
Wow, it turns out "Really convincing-sounding chatbot" isn't as all-purpose as was hoped.
I mean, legit, it's impressive how detailed and precise (and often wrong) it can get, but impressive isn't the same as useful.
I guess AI image generation probably has made concept art mockups quicker for some.
Even using it for concept art is a bad idea in terms of creativity and the creative process and negatively impacts the end result.
An artist will have an easier time creating concept art than AI will have giving you an accurate representation of what you envision using keywords. If they turn to AI Slop instead for creative ideas, then the project they need concept art for never had a concept in the first place, and is doomed to fail.
My GPU just started to die and I planned to build/upgrade my PC. Rip I guess all I can do now is hope for the bubble to burst.
You can still get one that's 7 years old and was thrashed by the crypto Bros for 800 bucks though !
My RAM is starting to go on my 10 year old machine. I haven’t cried, but I wouldn’t describe the situation as dry, either.
I had the same thing yesterday - I had bought a 16GB DDR4 stick in the before times for my ThinkPad and now it's been behaving erratically and unpredictable. I'll run a memtest at some point, but it might be going back to its original 8GB for a long time..
DDR4 laptop RAM hasn't been hit quite as hard, a 16GB will set you back about $100-120
It’s wild to think that 'actually being useful' is considered a backup plan and not the starting point. Usually, you prove the value before you use all the resources, not the other way around.
The epitome of a solution looking for a problem. Microsoft and others have dropped almost trillions into AI. With nothing to show for it.
It is useful, if you have the freedom to use it when and how you want. Not when Microsoft says so.
This is your grave, Microsoft. Keep digging it.
It absolutely makes no sense that a bunch of corpos can do whatever the hell they like all while the common folk are forced to pay for their stupidity.
The electricity is one example. Bullshit like this which is completely useless shouldn't be a thing - All it does is severely impact the general populace all while the borguoise is blinded by false narratives whilst living beside their fat stacks of cash.
They've already lost social permission by making us hate their OS. This wording feels the same as calling lies "alternative facts." You just rename"hatred of our OS" with "lack of social permission." God PR speak is so annoying
Today in "billionaire says the most blatantly evil and deranged shit ever publicly and no one cares"…
Bananapants.
Puts that in my pocket for later
I hereby revoke the social permission.
Social permission revoked. Please set the money piles on fire.
Banana pants for scale.
I think there are valuable, narrow use cases for AI as it currently is. It should not be released into the wild willy-nilly in some scheme by greedy, irresponsible billionaires to profit from. It should be strictly regulated and controlled, perhaps allowed only to researchers who are trained to use it responsibly. I imagine it would be useful for suggesting novel solutions to problems that people would eventually come up with on their own, but LLMs would present many more now for consideration. It could act as a hallucinating muse for people who understand its limitations and know the application well enough to know what to reject out of hand as wrong and irresponsible.
I see ai having 1 purpose
Help blind people
Image recognition is amazingly useful for blind people
It's also good at assisting with software development, no thanks to Microsoft though when it's Google's Gemini model and Anthropic's Opus model used by copilot
There are a ton of useful use cases for machine learning, especially in the medical field. But the AI hype that all these datacenters are being built for isn't about molecule folding and interpreting x-rays, it's about chatbots.
In a similar vein, machine learning is also being used to improve cochlear implants
The DotCom bubble burst in 2000 and lots of nonsensical companies went under. But it did not mean that the Internet was gone. It just mean that lots of people did stupid investments.
lose 'social permission'
So when was that permission given?
They could produce something useful instead?!
But think of the shareholders!
They could all lay themselves off
It is the grift du jour, so it was at the time
Any city council not restricting data center builds or not expanding renewables isn't paying attention or has been bribed
