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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
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[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the biggest buzzword right now, it doesn't matter if it's profitable. I doubt most uses are directly profitable right now. It'd more of a FOMO situation - if we don't use AI, we're OBSOLETE! AHHH!

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it turns out not to be profitable in the long run then people will stop.

Should we never even experiment?

[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's basically exactly my point. Seems we agree lol. I was just poking fun at the fact that it feels like just about every large tech company is doing it, just like when the metaverse was all the rage... Or crypto, or...