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Veraxus , to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models

Only when the model is also freeware, IMHO.

teletext , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to sustainable energy.

The final solution the AI comes up with: Cut the power of the poor, euthanize the old and weak.

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

And make paperclips.

cyborganism ,
grue ,

I hate that they decided to have Morpheus hold up a battery instead of a processor because some empty suit thought audiences were too stupid to get it.

EldritchFeminity ,

Didn't it also have something to do with a brand deal? Like the suit got extra funding for the movie by making a deal with Duracell to have their batteries in the movie or something.

imecth ,
@imecth@fedia.io avatar

The whole thing never made much sense anyways, machines would be without scrupules and cut off any redundancies like extra limbs, they'd probably just keep your brain in a jar.

arken ,

Well, perhaps that process would be more difficult and resource-intensive in this hypothetical scenario, so it would be much easier and less hassle to just keep the bodies alive?

Wogi ,

If it were actually AI I might have some faith.

This isn't a neural net processor, not a learning computer. It's a fucking mechanical Turk. A bad one.

What he's talking about isn't capable of deriving new ideas. It's just going to spit out shit it's seen already.

The library of Babel is just as likely to give us the answers he's talking about. More likely maybe because it's at least already written down.

rottingleaf ,

I wonder if all this is to burn enough energy to make ignorant people believe that we have AI. And then use that AI as a justification of the existing order of things, the same way "civil contract" is. That it's not really technical, but rather a very big and expensive propaganda campaign for abolishing democracies.

mumblerfish ,

Wow, that is so dumb. I saw some crack pot dude trying to solve unsolved physics problems by using prompts like "imagine you are Einstein, then how would you solve: ...". Good to see he is not alone, but has Bill fucking Gates with similarly dumb AI takes.

rottingleaf ,

This is even more dumb when even Joan f-g Rowling in her books about magic for children described how and why magic can't do this. One of the reasons I like Harry Potter - not for the plot or the human part, but for the magic there being quite similar to computers in our time. With similar limitations, except for unique cases.

So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don't, she's done more good than evil by far still), she's smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.

Ledivin ,

So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don't, she's done more good than evil by far still), she's smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.

Lol. She lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it. She's not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she's ever put out kinda slams the "smarter than most of humanity" line.

rottingleaf ,

She’s not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she’s ever put out kinda slams the “smarter than most of humanity” line.

EDIT: accidental keypress

This happens and doesn't mean that she

lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it

, everyone who has, you know, actually created something knows that from experience.

Ledivin ,

They weren't meant to be causative, and I stand by both of my statements. Her writing is objectively bad, and it's a small miracle that she didn't manage to ruin this series like everything else she's written. Yes, I know those are strong words, and yes, I do believe them.

rottingleaf ,

Well, how can one speak about some thing's author, the person who has built it from scratch, as of someone who can ruin it or not?

That said, it's hard for me to read her in English, and I've read HP mostly in at least three translations to Russian, one official and two unofficial ones. The former sucks, and from the latter two the one which reads the best is by the least professional translator (actually she's not a translator at all), and I mean Maria Spivak (the original one to circulate in the Runet and samizdat versions, not the abomination published much later).

It communicates the feeling of mad and a bit hooligan-ish fairy tale, I suspect that emotionally it's the closest to the original.

Anyway, it's pretty normal for an author to have a magnum opus and the rest of their works to just not make sense.

Fades ,

how about euthanize the entire planet? Just put us out of our fucking misery already goddamn

JoShmoe ,

Dead wrong. AI is not as reliable as their makers would like to believe. AI is more likely to adopt all the flaws of humanity than make anything “better.” A subjective term.

rottingleaf ,

It's a text generator. All these people, were they to live in Antiquity, would jump ship to ship trying to visit every oracle and prophet in the Mediterranean asking questions about universe and seeking deep meaning in short texts of the Chinese fortune cookie kind.

muntedcrocodile , to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models

I agree looking forward to your whitelisting of the piratebay in ur search engines and the modification of the llms you have invested in helping with such activities.

Th4tGuyII , to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models
@Th4tGuyII@fedia.io avatar

Rules for thee, but not for me - just as always

MisterMoo , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Okay thanks Bill, I won’t.

Snapz ,

Actually frees up some time on the old to-do list!

Look out Saturday, cuz here comes Millhouse!

RizzRustbolt , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

While shooing folks away from a curtained-off area.

brucethemoose , (edited ) to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models

Well it would be great if more of their models were 'freeware' too.

Microsoft just loves to have their cake, eat it... and not share it.

Lucidlethargy , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw
@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works avatar

Can I worry about the fact the most serious AI's are owned by large companies, and that they are being taught to replace artists, writers and creatives?

What a sad fucking dystopia we live in.

best_username_ever , to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models

I agree with Microsoft for once. I get all my online content on the open web of TPB. It's freeware, if you like. It is the understanding.

Damage , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to sustainable energy.

We already know how

Tronn4 ,

Ai told my power company to tell us to stop using energy during the day beucase ai needs the power to do the power co.pqnies jobs

Contravariant ,

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

mutant_zz ,

Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.

"We can use it to solve climate change!"

We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes
doing that impossible.

And, no, AI can't "fix" politics. We're going to have to figure that out by ourselves.

GoofSchmoofer ,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

but now we have a scapegoat

laurelraven ,

Climate scientists: "do these things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"
AI developers: create AI
Climate scientists: "AI is drawing massive power accelerating climate change, we need to stop that"
Everyone: "but it can tell us how to fix climate change so it's going to be okay!"
AI climate model: "do these same things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"

Yeah, I can't see any way this could possibly fail...

AWittyUsername ,

Sure lets burn all the oil to figure out how to not burn all the oil.

AWittyUsername , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Oh Gates what a lovely altruistic human billionaire.

technocrit , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

They gonna be hawking these cliff notes machines even as the last breathable air disappears.

rickyrigatoni , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw
@rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee avatar

Ricky says Bill Gates needs to shut the fuck up. You have thousands of times more money than any human will ever need leave the rest of us alone you fucking demon.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register

There is leaked Windows source code online... Is that also freeware for me to train an OS-building model on?

RootBeerGuy ,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Sorry, you need high quality data for training.

vrek ,

The Linux source code is also online...

smeg ,

Seems like we're all in agreement that all information should be free, I look forward to them open-sourcing every proprietary bit of code they have

barsoap , to Technology in FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days

Simlocks have completely vanished from the market at least here in Germany, mostly because carriers don't care if you use your subsidised bonus phone with a different card -- you're still locked into a contract with two years or such minimum duration. Even those contracts have gotten rare though I think most people right-out own their phones and then make a separate contract.

vxx ,

It only went away because they were forced to. We would still live with that carrier mess if it wasn't for regulation.

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