Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nuclear power means they can do both.

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  • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hear me out:

    What if we used that nuclear power only to fix the environment?

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    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No. Nuclear power is not anti climate, but still anti ecology.

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      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How exactly is a nuke plant antiecosystems? Under that guise, pretty much anything humans do is as such.

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You're free to invest in nuclear power for that purpose if you want.

      Microsoft is investing in nuclear power to run their AI projects. They likely wouldn't be investing in nuclear power if they didn't have projects that needed it like this.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And the U.S. government wouldn’t have invested in all of the development that went into the Apollo program if they didn’t want to beat the Russians, but we still all benefitted from the science and the research and the development.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only if there’s a meltdown, and that’s near-impossible with current reactor designs. Just don’t build in very disaster-prone areas like Florida or Japan.

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you have misread the comment you replied to.

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      • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Indeed. Using nuclear power avoids causing trouble to the ecosystem.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nuclear power still requires huge front costs (goal of SMR is to reduce that, but first generations will not solve it), so it could better to use them for every day life needs rather than a prospective commercial venture.

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• thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AI might be a fantastic tool to help fix the environment, though.

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  • Rayspekt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People aren't listening to human scientists and you think they'll be happy with an scary AI saving the planet?

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they're not listening to humans or AI, then they're not going to be happy with anything and should probably be ignored.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Unfortunately it’s hard to ignore the people running your country.

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  • hanni@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will be used to drive more consumption.

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It will be used for both. The way out of global warming is going forward in technology, not backward.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We already use AI in climate change models. This is a large language model that honestly, we don’t need.

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  • halva@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    bold of you to assume microsoft is interested in that

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