Quote from: RE on Jun 18, 2024, 12:51 PMBillionaires want AI, they just don't wanna pay for all the juice it takes to run the computers.  Somebody else should take the risk.

Who is out there demanding we have AI Data Centers?  Just tell the Billionaires, "You want this, you power it."  Has anybody seen any demonstrable improvement in their life from AI?  Most of the consequences so far seem to have been bad rather than good.  Deep Fakes and lost jobs for instance.

I see no pressing need for AI, and I certainly can't see why taxpayers would want to foot the bill.  Electric companies who might profit from it might want t, but they're already way behind on being able to supply power, so why do they want another headache?

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power-supply/big-tech-wants-nuclear-power-but-doesn-t-see-role-as-investor

RE

QuoteI see no pressing need for AI,

All the talk now is hype.  A.I. was a dream and progress was painfully slow.  Anybody into computer science knows this.  Finally enough progress was made to get useful results.  But what kind of results really? 

A circular saw is a great tool if you have a wall plug to plug the cord into.  It is superior to a hand saw in many ways.  Even so it is not a perfect replacement, and at the end of the day the power saw is only a tool that gets a job done.  A wooden chair is a wooden chair is a wooden chair.  Power magic is not transferred to a product.  Power only makes production easier.  And A.I. has to be told what to do.

Besides not being magic, A.I. right now is like a precocious ten year old that has just consumed five candy bars and has been told to sit still.  Superior in many ways to humans, A.I. has serious shortcomings, and it will have a maturity issue for quite some time.

As for putting people out of work.  That is a function of the system, not technology.  Ask a true Luddite.  We don't hate technology.  We only hate technology stolen into private hands!

The private hands seem to be a problem.