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this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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People have very little understanding of how computers work in general, and somehow that has translated into a total misunderstanding of what AI is - an LLM is not a magic box that knows everything, it just has a very complicated opaque way of transforming information. But it is a God to people, like a magic genie in their pocket. I get it though because it is made to feel like it is magic and knowd everything.
Its a fancy autocomplete algorithm.
That is crowd sourced.
And requires entire nuclear reactors to power only itself and nothing else.
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... People were freaking out over cryptomining farms.
This is so much worse.
We are entering an era where the goal is to consume as much energy as possible - not for any benefit or tangible productivity, but solely for "growth"