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The population just needs to get over it. AI is smarter than people.
 
Intelligence, or 'smarts' is in the eye of the beholder, and since AI cannot have an original thought, and AI lacks the subjective experience, consciousness, and self-awareness that are often considered essential for genuine originality, Ai is a glorified Library of Alexandria, a repository of the past information, yet unable to do much with it other than make it available.
The encroaching of AI on every aspect of your day to day life will have consequences...and they won't be good ones, but so it goes...


"It is not possible to make a lasting compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through repeated compromises."
 
5. AI is being imposed from the top down, without grassroots enthusiasm.Most innovation is initially top-down. The iPhone, cloud computing, and streaming services were all introduced before wide consumer demand. Successful AI features often build user enthusiasm after deployment.

Ok AI. Let's talk about this.
The iPhone is something you can avoid. You have to buy it if you want it. So your point is incorrect.

Cloud computing?? Yeah, having helped deploy the first cloud network for T-Mobile I can tell you that it is strictly an advantage (with a LOT of PIA work to get there) for the service provider, not necessarily the customer. In fact, cloud computing is not as reliable as all the people selling cloud computing would have you believe. Is it powerful? Sure. Does it save you rack space in your data center? Yep! But don't come at me with "you'll never have an outage again". And the old multiple servers all sharing responsibility came a lot closer to five 9s (99.999) than cloud computing is doing. The internet is easy. Try supporting phone service where just 1 dropped 911 call could mean someone's life. THAT's when reliability of cloud computing is tested and for all the hype and $$ it has far under-performed it's ancestors. Ok, cloud rant over.

Streaming service? Again, something I can avoid if I don't want to pay for it.

Introducing something doesn't mean you integrate it into existing tools. You suck AI. Do better. :ROFLMAO:
 
skyriver said:
5. AI is being imposed from the top down, without grassroots enthusiasm.Most innovation is initially top-down. The iPhone, cloud computing, and streaming services were all introduced before wide consumer demand. Successful AI features often build user enthusiasm after deployment.

Does it save you rack space in your data center? Yep!
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At the cost of higher external bandwidth required to access denser cloud data, and host data centers becoming enormous black hole power consuming monoliths.
My first gig as a project manager building data centers was for Sun Microsystems, building at the time what was the largest data center in the bay area, racking and stacking 1,000 servers hosting Sun's Enterprise and Engineering tools. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current.
My last gig was a DC in Switzerland, racking and stacking 5,000 blade servers, with the capacity to add another 5,000 servers, carrying TLD (top level domain) internet traffic. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current, and 6x my first project.
Current AI data centers are stacking 50,000 blade servers with the power needs of a small city, and as next generation builds comes on line, massive DC's of well over one million sq' of dense server arrays will soon be consuming the power of large cities
On site package nukes will be the only solution in the AI race to the top, which will cease the drain from the conventional power grid as well as allow the construction of these enormous arrays to take place well away from urban centers, the laying of underground internet fiber a fraction of the cost of running high voltage power lines.
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SurfnFish said:
At the cost of higher external bandwidth required to access denser cloud data, and host data centers becoming enormous black hole power consuming monoliths.
My first gig as a project manager building data centers was for Sun Microsystems, building at the time what was the largest data center in the bay area, racking and stacking 1,000 servers hosting Sun's Enterprise and Engineering tools. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current.
My last gig was a DC in Switzerland, racking and stacking 5,000 blade servers, with the capacity to add another 5,000 servers, carrying TLD (top level domain) internet traffic. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current, and 6x my first project.
Current AI data centers are stacking 50,000 blade servers with the power needs of a small city, and as next generation builds comes on line, massive DC's of well over one million sq' of dense server arrays will soon be consuming the power of large cities
On site package nukes will be the only solution in the AI race to the top, which will cease the drain from the conventional power grid as well as allow the construction of these enormous arrays to take place well away from urban centers, the laying of underground internet fiber a fraction of the cost of running high voltage power lines.
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Yep! I meant it saves service providers like T-Mobile rack space, but those servers have to live somewhere. And that's small beans compared to the Google & Meta data centers. The power consumption is crazy. Meta just signed a nuclear deal.
www.pbs.org

Meta signs 20-year deal with nuclear plant, signals AI's growing energy needs

AI already uses vast amounts of energy, much of which comes from burning fossil fuels, which causes climate change.
www.pbs.org www.pbs.org

And don't get me going about the water consumption these things need. It's massive! It will be interesting to see how the public perceives these companies. Like most people, Ken & Barbie will recycle, buy EV cars and use "green" products all while using and paying for AI services that are far from green. And they either won't know it or won't care. As long as they're perceived to care about the planet they'll still get party invites.
 
SurfnFish said:
At the cost of higher external bandwidth required to access denser cloud data, and host data centers becoming enormous black hole power consuming monoliths.
My first gig as a project manager building data centers was for Sun Microsystems, building at the time what was the largest data center in the bay area, racking and stacking 1,000 servers hosting Sun's Enterprise and Engineering tools. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current.
My last gig was a DC in Switzerland, racking and stacking 5,000 blade servers, with the capacity to add another 5,000 servers, carrying TLD (top level domain) internet traffic. The power consumption requirements were next level from any current, and 6x my first project.
Current AI data centers are stacking 50,000 blade servers with the power needs of a small city, and as next generation builds comes on line, massive DC's of well over one million sq' of dense server arrays will soon be consuming the power of large cities
On site package nukes will be the only solution in the AI race to the top, which will cease the drain from the conventional power grid as well as allow the construction of these enormous arrays to take place well away from urban centers, the laying of underground internet fiber a fraction of the cost of running high voltage power lines.
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Man…Sun Microsystems…thanks for reminding me how old I am.
 
Zak said:
Here's my tin foil hat fear. AI has shown remarkable ability to tell what people are thinking by reading brainwaves.

www.newscientist.com

Mind-reading AI can translate brainwaves into written text

A system that records the brain's electrical activity through the scalp can turn thoughts into words with help from a large language model – but the results are far from perfect
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com

Combine that with new (not yet existant?) technology to read brain waves from a distance, and our new AI overlords will be able to tell what we are thinking of doing, before we do it. Good luck accessing the server room with intent to do harm in that scenario. Real time feedback from inside the listener's head will allow AI to craft finely-tailored listener-specific persuasive messaging. Maybe there will be a use for tin foil hats after all?
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Well, you might get to the server room, but what happens when that AI left in charge of the fire suppression system locks you in and floods the place with Halon gas ?
 
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