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[-] 4vgj0e@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I find it insane when "tech bros" and AI researchers at major tech companies try to justify the wasting of resources (like water and electricity) in order to achieve "AGI" or whatever the fuck that means in their wildest fantasies.

These companies have no accountability for the shit that they do and consistently ignore all the consequences their actions will cause for years down the road.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 33 points 11 months ago

It's research. Most of it never pans out, so a lot of it is "wasteful". But if we didn't experiment, we wouldn't find the things that do work.

[-] 4vgj0e@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I agree, but these researchers/scientists should be more mindful about the resources they use up in order to generate the computational power necessary to carry out their experiments. AI is good when it gets utilized to achieve a specific task, but funneling a lot of money and research towards general purpose AI just seems wasteful.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What’s funny is that we already have general intelligence in billions of brains. What tech bros want is a general intelligence slave.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Well put.

I'm sure plenty of people would be happy to be a personal assistant for searching, summarizing, and compiling information, as long as they were adequately paid for it.

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