Comment on US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage
maniii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
AI seems to be just more and more statistical probabilities hashed-out at record-breaking speeds and power-consumption of computing. Its like that adage, “sufficiently advanced that it is magic” we are doing that for AI. We are building more and more complex statistical analysis engines that spew out near-perfect answers from garbage inputs at the expense of actual analysis ,research and development.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You could train a model on all available research and use that to find holes that haven’t been explored in a way that no human possibly could.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You could do that training… and the “AI” can print out some lines that have the same writing styles as the articles. Because that’s all LLMs can do. Don’t buy the hype, they’re just energy sucking predictive text bots. Nothing more. The whole thing is a dead end as far as finding the actual systems behind intelligence.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The first car didn’t even have a roof on it and good luck finding a gas station. The first computers took up entire buildings. 25 years ago we didn’t have broadband Internet, you had dialup.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, it’s a dead end. Not immature. Not “a burgeoning technology’s with some kinks to iron out”. It’s the wrong proverbial tree to bark up. This is as good as this tech can ever get, which is why it’s being sold so hard right now. Because it’s turned into a grift to try and claw back the wasted R&D dollars.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That requires intelligence to determine. “AI” ain’t got none of that. It can tell you a recipe for muffins that definitely is probably edible, except for the obvious poisons.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
You could build a rocket in your backyard, fly to Mars, and come back to tell humanity.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sand, Lots of sand.
maniii@lemmy.world 3 months ago
someone has to find the holes to input into the AI training data :'D so i guess that wont work.