Boy are they gonna look stupid when they realize that no one outside their little bubble has a use for AI.
It’s not even close to ready for launch and why are we wasting energy on it?
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because idiots like me who have no marketable skills can use it to fool ourselves into thinking we can do code/art/literature/etc.
actually this (yes, I'm replying to myself). I'm an idiot with no marketable skills. I put boxes on shelves for a living. I want to be an artist, a musician, a programmer, an author. I am so bad at all of these, and between having a full time job, a significant other, and several neglected hobbies, I don't have time to learn to get better at something I suck at. So I cheat. If I want art done, I could commission a real artist, or for the cost of one image I could pay for dalle and have as many images as I want (sure, none of them will be quite what I want but they'll all be at least good). I could hire a programmer, or I could have chatgpt whip up a script for me since I'm already paying for it anyway since I want access to dalle for my art stuff. Since I have chatgpt anyway, I might as well use it to help flesh out my lore for the book I'll never write. I haven't found a good solution for music.
I have in my brain a vision for a thing that is so fucking cool (to me), and nobody else can see it. I need to get it out of my brain, and the only way to do that is to actualize it into reality. I don't have the skills necessary to do it myself, and I don't have the money to convince anyone else to help me do it. generative AI is the only way I'm going to be able to make this work. Sure, I wish that the creators of the content that were stolen from to train the ai's were fairly compensated. I'd be ok with my chatgpt subscription cost going up a few dollars if that meant real living artists got paid, I'm poor but I'm not broke.
These are the opinions of an idiot with no marketable skills.
checks notes Shareholders?!
AI seems perfect for renewables load balancing. Got extra power to burn because it is windy at night? Train your models
Nuclear has never been profitable without massive government subsidies and guarantees, and ~~Google~~ Kairos too will either manage to collect those or lose money.
It’s unclear how Google and Kairos set up the deal — whether the former is providing direct funding or if it just promised to buy the power that the latter generates when its reactors are up and running. Nevertheless, Kairos has already passed several milestones, making it one of the more promising startups in the field of nuclear energy.
I guarantee you, they are shouldering on none of the risk (like the Chinese and French at Hinkley Point), and this startup will be going down.
Yay, more ads to pay for Google’s reactors.
Lol, now just let AI manage the reactors, then give it access to manufacturing tech and we have every machine takeover scenario ever.
For some reason this doesn't feel like good news.
Any nuclear adoption is good news. This WILL help destigmatize them and help reduce cost by production at scale. Overall, while it's extremely questionable, depending on how many companies get on board it could be net positive
This WILL help destigmatize them and help reduce cost by production at scale.
I'm not saying this won't have any benefits. I'm saying that I don't trust Google or the AI craze much, let alone huge corporations in general.
So I'm worried that there might be unforeseen fuckups or "savings procedures" or other ways of squeezing out profit until something breaks.
And those fuckups can easily outweigh the benefits.
If we had good governments and reliable regulation, this would be absolutely thrilling. But we don't, do we?
One step closer to the Fallout games becoming reality, which is at least potentially cool in some ways.
After they decide to abandon their AI project can we use them for something meaningful?
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