Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Womble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There actually has been good work on using AI to control fusion plasmas its at the point where it can keep them stable significantly better than any human or simple automated system.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes in a research lab. Here we’re talking about Microsoft.

    Have you ever used something they made? Did it meet your standard of being “good work”? No. It’s a greedy, soulless cash grab disguised as software that infects the entire organization and disables common sense.

    M$ actually running a nuclear plant is a guaranteed disaster. Blue Screen of Death.

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    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Have you ever used something they made? Did it meet your standard of being “good work”?

      I mean you’re ignorance of the products that they build or work on doesn’t precipitate their badness. Let’s start with the entire developer ecosystem that they have their hands deep in, it’s a pretty damn good ecosystem.

      You probably need to check your bias because it’s leaking, negatively affecting your decision making.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        *your*

        And how long have you watched Microsoft do what they do? Is it more than five years? 10? 20? 30? Really?

        You can genuflect to the Ballmers all you want but their less-sucky products are still the best garbage one of the most profitable businesses in the history of earth can provide.

        I’m not talking about UX, or code that doesn’t crash. I’m talking about that and the purpose of it. Good software serves the purpose of the user. Micro$oft software serves Micro$oft primarily - and often exclusively. Then there’s the monopolistic practice they have of buying innovation and crushing it beneath their heel.

        Whatever “ignorance” of their products I have has been very deliberately cultivated. Glad you like VS, you’ll benefit Microsoft through it in at least one, or many, ways.

        And none of what they do is different from how they’ve always been. Their self-serving greed was on full display from the day Bill Gates started demanding payment for his software that others had been freely sharing with him. Feel free to remain in thrall to them.

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    • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Talk about a Core Dump…

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hi-oooooooo!

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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know, that actually makes sense. Fusion is so energetic and probabilistic in nature, plus it’s effectively “charged fluid dynamics” and there are an impossible number of variables to handle. That’s literally the kind of shit AI is great at.

    Fission though? Not so much

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    • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn’t really need deep learning to make work well :p

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      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apparently, I didn’t learn that with my ex

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