Comment

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

I’m not one to be all doom and gloom about ai, but giving one its own small nuclear reactor, presumably one that’s in close proximity to it and separate from the local power grid… that’s obviously going to have substantial security measures around it… and be that much more difficult to cut off if need be…

I mean, it’s starting to sound a lot like an unbelievable plot hole in a bad sci fi movie isn’t it?

source

Sort:hotnew top

prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s… Not how things work. Creative, but no.

source
- Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You’re gonna be reductive about it as if AI hasn’t ALREADY USED TASKRABBIT TO TRICK A HUMAN INTO SOLVING A CAPTCHA???
  
  GPT has already neutralized our primary defence, it can now do anything.
  
  source
douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s a nice sci-fi thought, but also not really how it works irl.

There’s a lot more going on at all levels that makes this absurd at best. Movies are not a good representation of reality, they can’t be if they are meant to be entertaining.

source
roboticide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why are you saying this as if the AI would have control over the reactor.

It’s unlikely they’d even be in the same building, or even the same campus. We have these crazy things called “wires” that let us transmit a lot of power over distances, so your small nuclear reactor can be remote, safe and secure and your AI lab can just be on your main campus.

source
guacupado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ironic you compare it to a bad sci fi movie and that’s exactly where your knowledge is coming from.

source
sugartits@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They should call it WOPR for no reason whatsoever.

source
bemenaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You do konw, that it is IMPOSSIBLE for a nuclear reactor to explode in a nuclear fission explosion, aka become a nuclear bomb. Reaching critical mass isn’t possible. Nuclear reactors can catch on fire, if built using graphite, that isn’t done anymore, or have a steam explosion. but that’s it.

source
- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They can get hot enough to melt if the reaction isn’t properly regulated (hence, “meltdown”), but you’re correct that that’s still not a fission explosion.
  
  source