https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/bill_gates_ai_power_consumption/

  • AlicePraxis [any]
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    4 days ago

    Bill Gates is not a technology expert, he's a business man. like all tech CEOs he has no idea what he's talking about. he never created anything in his life, he pays other people to do that. all he knows is how to turn money into more money

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      4 days ago

      The only thing attributed to him he essentially stole, to add icing on that cake. MS-DOS was not cooked from scratch.

      • AlicePraxis [any]
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        4 days ago

        I believe he borrowed money from his parents to buy DOS, for a lot less than it was worth.

        Bezos also borrowed money from his step-dad to start Amazon. hmm seems to be a theme with all these "self-made" billionaires

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          4 days ago

          Business freaks will repeat the axiom "you gotta spend money to make money!" and expect us not to find out about the loan from daddy that undergirds every "rags to riches" story of modern elites.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        He also invented a better algorithm for sorting pancakes by size.

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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        4 days ago

        And Bill Gates mom? She was on the same board as the CEO of IBM and was instrumental in getting the licensing deal

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    will ultimately identify ways to cut power consumption

    The poors will be forced to turn off the heat in winter

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      4 days ago

      Field reliability call center workers will be replaced with IVR systems integrated with generative text-to-speech prompts. Some numbnuts telecom sub-subcontractor is going to call in a line locate, get a complete gibberish answer from the bazinga machine, and start boring right into a gas main, thus sending everything in a three-block radius to Valhalla. But the energy corporations' CEOs will get to line their own pockets with some investment money in the meantime, as hedgies salivate over power and gas stonks getting in on the AI hype train. The C-suite goons will get golden parachutes while the workers shoulder the blame for upper management's shitty decisions.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 days ago

    Again, we just need to burn down HALF the rain forest not the whole thing to get a language model that tells us cancer is good for your skin.

  • underisk [none/use name]
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    4 days ago

    wow the "one good billionaire" is just as stupid and destructively greedy as all the other ones? shocking.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      The term billionaire was named after him for a reason

      think-about-it

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    4 days ago

    Bill need not worry about the revolution reappropriating his hoard of wealth, he will adapt

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    don't worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

    Sure there's a lot of promising research into using less power to run the same models, but that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

    AI will identify ways

    Oh. Well. LMAO it is then.

    • AstroStelar [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

      There's a name for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      4 days ago

      I wish Bill a very happy falling into a pit and dying painfully and obviously, preferably with some sort of subterranean beetle eating him from the inside out

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    4 days ago

    I hope for everyone’s sake that he knows he’s lying. There will indeed be further optimizations in AI computation energy efficiency. There will eventually be ASICs for training models which run a non-standard form of floating point representation which is optimized for LLM training. Those will be more energy efficient. But the idea that LLMs or any near-future iteration on them will be the catalyst for those optimizations is nonsense.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 days ago

      He's saying AI will figure out how to do nuclear fission and reorient society to prevent climate change

      • TheDoctor [they/them]
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        4 days ago

        Even more delusional the . There are really intensive bits of computer science dedicated to manipulative mathematical symbols and solving advanced maths. They don’t fall under the umbrella of machine learning and no amount of GPU cores will changes that.

      • Krem [he/him]
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        4 days ago

        oh cool he wants a Culture Mind to organize human society. too bad our "ai" is just machine learning and no actual intelligence

        • Des [she/her, they/them]
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          4 days ago

          i would be fine with a Culture Mind to give us culture communism but i wouldn't want it made by those ghouls

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 days ago

    Actual AI might eventually achieve that.

    LLMs fucking won't though.