How much of that AI is actually being used for something worthwhile? Most of the AI I see being sold to the public is pointless bullshit. Nobody needs Microsoft Copilot or Bard or whatever for home/personal use; it's just a new gimmick that's called something other than what it is to captivate the imagination. It's fuckin' Bonzai Buddy 2.0.

These dumbass "AIs" would be better served as NPCs in video games, and instead they're using them to just write the entire story and come up with lore details. 🤦‍♂️

Could someone give me examples about fields where the AI is already useful?

Because right now it looks like the answer to a question no one asked.

I could see how it could be useful for NOC in videogames or as an assistant, but if it involves wasting so much energy, I don’t see the point.

[Very sarcasm] We can just burn more coal or just huck poor people into furnaces or something! Wait no, give them cars! Coal rollin' cars!!!! Why are we even pretending that racing toward extinction isn't our goal? Embrace doom! Down with humanity! Up with constant fucking around with no regard for costs or consequences!

May I please have some painkillers before being tossed into the furnace, though :-\ Or maybe just like, toss some naproxen in after me I guess?

Well, Transcendence from 2014 got this right.

Seems like ai companies should take some of that investor cash and build up their own power supply. Maybe they can be the ones to use the small, modular nuclear power stations I've heard a little about. Or go bananas on solar and various energy storage solutions.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Electricity supply is becoming the latest chokepoint to threaten the growth of artificial intelligence, according to leading tech industry chiefs, as power-hungry data centers add to the strain on grids around the world.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are investing billions of dollars in computing infrastructure as they seek to build out their AI capabilities, including in data centers that typically take several years to plan and construct.

But some of the most popular places for building the facilities, such as northern Virginia, are facing capacity constraints which, in turn, are driving a search for suitable sites in growing data center markets globally.

At present, “we probably don’t have enough capacity available” to run all the facilities that will be required globally by 2030, said Sharma, whose unit is working with chipmaker Nvidia to design centers optimized for AI workloads.

In October, the company said in filings to a Virginia regulator that it was experiencing “significant load growth due to data center development” and that growing power demands presented a “challenge.”

In response to the demand, authorities in jurisdictions including Ireland and the Netherlands have sought to limit new data center developments, while Singapore recently lifted a moratorium.

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Anybody else notice the first graph goes from 2020 to 1996?

So either less AI or more efficient AI, right?

Maybe we can ask ai how to make more power so there can be more ai. But then, when it tells us, we just mine more crypto. Fuck ai. Crypto won't murder us.