• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Or we could just not build new data centers to run AI models that have zero practical use?

    We could also just not build data centers in already drought-stricken areas just because those areas are majority poor and majority POC?

    We could also find a usecase for AI first, and then worry about the expansion later?

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      Look man, LLMs have a lot of fuckin problems but pretending they don’t have any legitimate usecase is just sticking your head in the sand. There are real, tangible uses for LLMs that people do every day. As a work tool. The AI snake oil slop is also a massive problem but LLM’s aren’t crypto. They are actually useful.

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          LLMs are just a tool, just like airplanes or hammers. An airplane is very expensive, but better at going really far distances than humans can on foot. A hammer is cheaper than a human, but by itself is useless unless operated properly. Despite the tone of the outputs, LLMs should not be authoritative and human judgement shouldn’t be replaced with them.

          Just on the security side of coding, highly skilled security engineers at Mozilla were able to use Claude Mythos to identify and address many issues to make Firefox more secure. Some if these issues were introduced over 10 years ago, and a human could have identified and fixed them but human speed of reading and finding will always be a bottleneck. Having highly skilled humans offload the slow task to go through the codebase and raise issues, allowed them to find and understand the nuanced problem, and work on a fix. The key here is giving the people with the skills the ability be enhanced with LLMs, not replace them with one.

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            In short, they’re great at finding and flagging things for a human to review.

            The problem is when someone overestimates how well these models perform and they try to automate everything and put too much trust into these models.

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        crypto is useful too, without monero i wouldnt have hrt. place i live in is a shithole and doctors are highly restrictive and far too expensive

        but monero is the best one in terms of privacy and it is unprofitable to mine it unless you have the latest and greatest green processor

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      5 hours ago

      I just wish people would leave more comments about how they don’t like AI. If AI is not gone by 2030, the only reason is because people didn’t comment about it enough.

      • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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        Actually it’ll be pretty limited because you AI-bros pissed off the normies you need to approve your giant data centers. over 400 plans for Data centers have been delayed or permanently stopped because people do not want them anywhere near them. They don’t bring jobs, they ruin the local water table permanently (on a human scale), and don’t provide any useful function as there is not one single AI service that is profitable.