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Findecanor In my view, a better analogy would be that AI is like a faulty nuclear weapons facility or power plant that is leaking radioactivity into the environment it is situated in. … by draining the water supply, draining the power grids, polluting the atmosphere and destroying peoples health, disturbing neighbourhoods with low-frequency noise, etc. But when the bubble bursts, the impact on the world economy will be like a nuclear explosion. Of course no analogy is a perfect match. It does not take into account how people's jobs are affected, how previously proud professionals are being pushed into taking soul-crushing exploitative "data annotation" jobs, how the AI companies are stealing peoples' creativity, how using AI tools is making people lose their skills or how AI is being used to making pornography in people's likeness… Reply
Notton Who the heck comes up with these analogies? What is this? the 2000 PS2 missile crisis again? I understand that there's a bit of a dual-use technology at play here, but the person asking the question doesn't seem to understand uranium enrichment has different grades, and it's what made the "Atoms for Peace", and CANDU export programs possible. btw, the time stamp for that question is 47:56, according to gemini. (I don't normally use AI, but I'm not sifting through 1h 8min long video either) As for a proper analogy, Nvidia AI GPUs are most liken to cars. Requires massive infrastructure to run, paid by the tax payer. Causes lots of environmental problems, which the tax payer has to foot the bill towards. Takes up entirely too much space to operate. Causes much pain and suffering to those around it, especially with car-centric road designs. Have you seen the road death numbers of US vs. rest of the world? Yeah, exactly. Can be used for good things, except most people that cause problems treat it like a toy, rather than a 5 ton death machine on wheels Can be used for terrorism and violence in the wrong hands Reply
trica ONE GPU isn't like an atomic bomb, it's like 0.001% of an atomic bomb factory. Reply
usertests If you let the fearmongering take over, you open the door to restrictions on what GPUs/accelerators consumers can buy, harming local AI use cases and further concentrating all the power in the hands of big corporations. You can try to prevent Russia, Iran, China, etc. from buying chips for use by the military. They will probably get them anyway, at a higher cost per chip to cover the smuggling, or by switching to Chinese alternatives. Meanwhile, some money will be left on the table, and it accelerates the development of competitors. Reply
Robinstl If AI is so great my question is why is it not capable of solving the problems it creates. Can AI not run with so much electric and water use? Can AI operate without being hacked every day like so many operating systems it run on? Why can’t it solve the problems? Reply
usertests Robinstl said: Can AI not run with so much electric and water use? Can AI operate without being hacked every day like so many operating systems it run on? Why can’t it solve the problems? Water use is overrated. AI is being used in chipmaking (EDA tools), material discovery, etc., so it is arguably "helping itself" to become more energy efficient. AI models have become more capable (efficient) with the same resources (i.e. model size) over time, and self-improving/training AI is possible. "Hacking" an AI is a good thing since guardrails are a nuisance. There shouldn't be anything inside of an AI model that needs protection, unless it is trained on your personal data or something. If AI gets really advanced, maybe it can help out this bloke Robinstl. Assuming he is not an AI. Reply
SmokyBarnable For me the interesting part of this piece is that Huang guest speaks at a Stanford class, reinforcing the fact that Stanford is a nexus of tech elitism. I would get next to nothing out of seeing one of these billionaires in my classroom. It’s the strivers who go apecrap over stuff like this. Reply
usertests SmokyBarnable said: For me the interesting part of this piece is that Huang guest speaks at a Stanford class, reinforcing the fact that Stanford is a nexus of tech elitism. I would get next to nothing out of seeing one of these billionaires in my classroom. It’s the strivers who go apecrap over stuff like this. It's a less prestigious institution than Denny's. Reply
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