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Imagine complaining about the water a data center uses in Texas but being totally fine with the billions of gallons it uses to cool it's two nuclear power stations. Yes I looked it up, yes it's a ridiculous hypocrisy and yes it would be lovely if people stopped falling for clickbait like this.
Yes, AI is as necessary as providing power. They are certainly the same. Let me just refrigerate my food using AI. Oh shit. The power is gone.
In a state that uses 28% of it's power on air conditioning? Interesting...
People in a hot part of the country use air conditioning? Quick, ask GPT for the reason!
The power plants arguably generate a more valuable output than the AI data centres, thus offering a better return of investment (of water)
Although with the amount of energy consumed by the latter, they are partially responsible for the continued existence of the former.
You are missing the point that it's millions of gallons daily, just for AI. You know the thing that actively makes our lives worse for no reason at all
I'm sorry it's making your life actively worse and I'd love to hear exactly how, because for me it's done nothing but improve my life in so many ways. It's got me over writers block so many times, helped me work through tricky problems of all kinds, taught me all sorts of excellent drawing, singing and music creation skills, helped me make sense of societal and political issues that I would not normally have understood and answered questions with a total absence of ego that I would never have had the nerve to ask before for fear of sounding stupid.
Hegelian dialectical materialism? It walked me through conversationally until I got it. The feasibility of someone being rich enough to build a rocket and just leave earth forever? It laid everything out in incredible detail (the resources required, it turns out, would be mindbogglingly insane).
AI hating is dumb and that's a hill I'll happily die on.
(Edit: fixed my atrocious spelling)
Considering the odd strawman comparison to nuclear power plants you started your argument with, I suspect the level of understanding of Hegelian dialectical materialism you have learnt from the AI, is probably not as advanced as you seem to think it is.
Also every single one of your examples describe situations which could have been solved by other means (and it would even require you to exercise that brain of yours a bit as well, an added bonus no doubt).
What does your precious AI say to the fact that people are being forced to save water so a corporation can mindlessly waste it on their profits instead? That seems to me to be the core of this subject, something you not only breezed lightly over but in fact completely ignored in favour of your personal anecdotes.
"not as advanced as you seem to think it is"
Didn't say it was advanced, but if you're going to resort to ad hominem tactics then welcome to my block list.
Lol.
You could have already done all of this with the internet itself...I dont understand why people think they need llms. Hell, you could have done all of that just from books, no internet needed. I feel like people are as lazy as they've ever been.
Also, you totally trust everything you learned. Thats not smart, being that its literally a corporate owned propaganda machine thats purpose is only to sell you ads to make the rich richer. Why do you think they are putting billions into it? Its sure as FUCK not for betterment of humanity.
"Also, you totally trust everything you learned." Never said I trusted it. You just exaggerated something I said so you could argue the counterpoint.
Something tells me all of the stuff you're creating with the assistance of AI is garbage.
Not even because you're using AI to do it, but because what most people create isn't impressive and I doubt your skilled enough to be an exception.
You might think AI is helping you and making you better, but that's probably because you're not put in actual positions where your performance is measured and matters.
For me, AI is only useful for consolidating search results into a response. It's wrong more often than its not, and to make use of what it says in any meaningful capacity requires knowledge that AI can't give you.