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misk OP , to Technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising
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That's a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.

misk OP , to Technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising
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In case of paywall: https://archive.is/EWaBS

misk , to Technology in Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium
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Amazon is missing too.

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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Thank you for your effort.

Couple of takeaways:

I think we can use Bitcoin difficulty chart to approximate how much crypto weighs in the AI / crypto mix. BTC difficulty stopped increasing in 2024 which could be partially explained by both competing for same resources. The other big one, Ethereum moved to proof of stake fairly recently and I think it's an attractive proposition for other crypto given the above. With this in mind it's fair to say crypto won't be a big factor compared to AI growth and I would expect researchers to come to somewhat similar conclusions.

As to how good AI is at things:

  • Effectiveness of AI powered search is debatable but it's a subjective thing so I don't want to get into it.
  • Translation tech was one of the early ML implementations and it's good to see it improving even more. Transcription is one of the great uses but how many people need that on frequent basis?
  • I remain unconvinced that many multimedia generative AI use is legal due to how training data was obtained. We're in a limbo until this gets decided by US / EU etc.
  • As you've mentioned there is concern that we'll see a lot of wasteful applications of AI. I was horrified when Googled demoed assistant that would find your car plates by scanning your photo library.

The last one is key I think. Since AI is the current buzzword companies will try to shoehorn it everywhere, regardless of it making sense.

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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Lmgtfy

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147153/microsoft-ai-data-center-record-renewable-energy-purchase

misk OP , (edited ) to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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It'll be a coal-powered Dyson sphere sustaining data center tasked with generating pictures of celebrity porn, Jesus, flight attendants, babies and seafood. By then AI will enjoy them as much as my mother does.

misk OP , (edited ) to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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Microsoft and other big tech already power their data centers with their own renewables, and they will continue to do so. In the latest quarterly report from MS they admit they didn't anticipate AI boom to be this big and so they have to buy more power externally. This is not good for them and they wouldn't do this on purpose. They will catch up because it's profitable thing to do.

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels. AI exploded and it's energy consumption exploded, there's lots of data to back it up. You're saying if not for AI there would be some other excuse. What excuse would that he? Would fossil fuel industry have to invent something that would consume this much energy?

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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There is tangible data on how much energy it's using.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/data-centers-could-use-9-us-electricity-by-2030-research-institute-says-2024-05-29/

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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I like conspiracy theories like an average bloke does but have you seen quarterly reports from big tech? Their energy consumption and costs are skyrocketing. Are they in cahoots with big oil coal?

misk OP , to Technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
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Very sustainable technology, this AI 😎

misk , to Technology in By Whose Authority? Pegasus targeting of Russian & Belarusian-speaking opposition activists and independent media in Europe - The Citizen Lab
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I wonder what's the extent of dirt that Israel has on foreign high ranking officials due to hacking everyone's private phones via NSO / Pegasus. My gut was telling me that the amount of weird influence they have is enough to balance genocide in Gaza but now they're openly supporting Europe's adversaries? I hope they get fucked.

misk , (edited ) to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
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Ding ding ding

[edit] Ah, crypto bros are here, it explains a lot.

misk , (edited ) to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
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It will not be economically viable once AI companies have to pay for their training data. So far they made some deals with press/media but multimedia is a can of worms that's waiting to explode in our faces. They're getting away with this because doing things and then asking for permission / forgiveness is a very Sillicon Valley thing to do, for now.

Technology itself seems to be in a plateau. The whole AI computer thing is just moving computation offline because amounts of energy needed are unsustainable and have to be dumped on consumers. We haven't seen that much progress since ChatGPT took the world by storm.

I'm not saying AI is a fad. It's revolutionizing medical research for example, and those industries actually own the data they're training AI on. EU sees this and is currently working on streamlining exchanging this data across member states too.

misk , to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
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It's a new blockchain. It'll fizzle out but we'll come up with a new buzzword by then.

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