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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Going out on a limb here: Is AI really an efficiency and productivity increasing device if we have to *checks notes... have an energy breakthrough to be able to functionally use it?

It sounds to me like rich people are admitting it actually takes more resources to support AI than it does fucking workers who already exist and don't need a fucking energy breakthrough to function.

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," he said. "It motivates us to go invest more in fusion."

Seriously.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So the silver lining to no energy breakthrough soon is they'll eventually have to give up on this AI shit because they can't make it run profitably.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You give them too much fucking credit. The rich are an entire class of people who don't know how to take "No" for an answer, they'll just burn every last drop of fossil fuel in pursuit of... something? and then say "oopsie doodles" when it's all gone and they still haven't gotten fusion off the ground.

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But they're not profiting. Eventually they'll have to stop throwing away their money speculatively.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how many years ago, the limitations to programming was the hardware. This led to programmers needing to be creative with their solutions. Maybe they should find better ways to train their AI...

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This is still a hardware limitation, just at scale.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everyone: Guys if we don't scale back our energy consumption we're literally gonna make the planet unlivable

Everyone: Guys if we don't reign in AI it might kill us all

Altman: I have an important request

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Altman: I am important

ftfy

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

If only AI was smart enough to bring us this breakthrough...

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

He gets invited to these Illuminati meetings and says that? Anyone not living under a rock knows the whole world needs an energy breakthrough. Half them believe we need it to save the planet and the other half want it so they can build bigger things. When have we ever not needed an energy breakthrough?

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is he letting us know OpenAI is eventually doomed?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Because it isn't.

To these kind of people, pursuing their own ideas is so much more important than feeding all humans on the planet, just for example.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Altman said he wished the world would embrace nuclear fission as an energy source as well.

"Ugh, everyone should just like accept fission so I can have my own nuclear power plant"