Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m sure that everyone will recognize that this was a great idea in a couple of years when generative LLM AI goes the way of the NFT.
Nfts were a scam from the start something that has no actual purpose utility or value being given value through hype.
Generative AI is very different. In my honest opinion you have to have your head in the sand if you don’t believe that AI is only going to incrementally improve and expand in capabilities. Just like it has year over year for the last 5 to 10 years.
The creators who made the LLM boom said they cannot improve it any more with the current technique due to diminishing returns.
It’s worthless in its current state.
Should be dying out faster imo.
One of the major problems with LLMs is it’s a “boom”. People are rightfully soured on them as a concept because jackasses trying to make money lie about their capabilities and utility – never mind the ethics of obtaining the datasets used to train them.
They’re absolutely limited, flawed, and there are better solutions for most problems … but beyond the bullshit LLMs are a useful tool for some jobs and they’re not going away.
I cannot think of one single application where an LLM is better or even equivalent than having a person do the job. It’s real only use is to trade human workers for cheaper but inferior output, at the cost of mankind as a whole because we have in excess labor and in shortage power.
That’s one groups opinion, we still see improving LLMs I’m sure they will continue to improve and be adapted for whatever future use we need them. I mean I personally find them great in their current state for what I use them for
What skin do you have in this game? Leading industry experts, who btw want to SELL IT TO YOU, told you it has hit a ceiling. Why do you refute it so much? Let it die, we will all be better off.
There are always new techniques and improvements. If you look at the current state, we haven’t even had a slowdown
Nah fuck off lmao
I suspect you’re right. But there really is never a good way to tell with these kinds of experimental techs. It could be a runaway chain of improvement. Or it is probably even odds that there is a visible and clear decline before it peters out, or just suddenly slams into a beick wall with no warning.
LLMs have real uses, even if they’re being overhyped right now. Even if they do fail, though, more nuclear power is a great outcome
Once operational, the energy generated is cheap and will still be in demand
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Honestly, it probably is a great idea regardless. The plant operated for a very long time profitably. I’m sure it can again with some maintenance and upgrades. People only know three mile island for the (not so disastrous) disaster, but the rest of the plant operated for decades after without any issues.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual “move fast and break things” approach.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
They are only buying 100% of the output. The old owners are still owning and operating it.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 days ago
And if they do skimp on maintenance and upgrades and the plant melts down, we can be assured that no harm will come to the company because the scale of the disaster would wipe them out and they’re “too big to fail.”
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s one of a hell of an old nuclear plant if it’s the original three mile island one.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
It is, yeah. It was in operation until 2019.