A medicine dispenser application for a nurse is still just CRUD operations for the most part. There’s nothing innovative about how the code would be written in an application like that.

You’re both correct, and also wrong.

A lot of code already exists. Or at least in a close enough form that it can be easily adjusted to address a new situation.

When someone comes up with an idea for a new App at this point, it’s almost never because it’s an entirely new branch of computing. It’s very likely just CRUD with a visual design, and then a small more complex algorithm to mix the data around behind the scenes.

What’s the difference between a dating app and an automatic meal plan builder? The algorithm doesn’t care about whether or not the recipe swiped back when it matches it up to you.

You’re right that they’re not going to be inventing entirely new things most of the time, that’s just not what’s needed of them most of the time.

They are making money, don’t confuse a lack of profit because of reinvest for failure. Amazon “lost” money for almost a decade.

Not every company needs to succeed either. Plenty of dead companies from the dot com bubble bursting, yet digital companies are more profitable than ever.

You clearly didn’t read the data. It wouldn’t matter if google was using 10x more. The difference between billions and quadrillions is literally a million times.

You’re doing the same shit on 100 different technologies that existed before LLMs but only this is a step too far?

Use your critical thinking skills.

Nah, these data centers are not even worth talking about being bad for the environment compared to almost everything else we do. Trying to use that as a primary focus here is just people looking for an excuse to hate the technology.

https://bryantresearch.co.uk/insight-items/comparing-water-footprint-ai/

Here’s a beautiful article comparing the AI industry to Cattle farming. AI data center water use is measured in tens Billions of liters, while the beef industry is measured in Quadrillions.

You already shot down your own IP argument, I don’t need to help you there. AI companies don’t disproportionately steal from small creators, They may have done more of that in the first few iterations, but the datasets simply don’t do that anymore. There’s no need, they can train it on clean data, then just pull live from the web for specifics now.

I am dripping condescension because it’s fucking stupid. There are plenty of horrible things happening in the world today, AI datacenters are so far down the list that they do not deserve the amount of effort people are putting in to hate them while far more significant things go un-recognized. The reason for this? Because people are being misled, and instead of figuring out things themselves they take the shit they read at face value.

When I see people begin their Anti-AI arguements with “it’s bad for the environment” I tune out completely. These motherfuckers have been driving gasoline powered vehicles around for decades, and are totally fine with natural gas fired power plants.

Fuck off.

Theft of ideas and IP?

Buddy, do you not fucking understand how society has improved over the last 10 thousand years? We even have a saying for it, “standing on the shoulders of giants” which as a saying/concept has been around for about the last 800 fucking years, and was made or remembered famously from Issac Newton in 1675.

If we didn’t use the ideas and learning from those that came before us, we’d still be living in caves.

Do you know what’s more recent than that saying? The entire concept of Intellectual property. Which has only been around a bit more than 500 years.

Buddy is complaining about giving money to large companies, then you look at their linked in profile and see a job history that includes Dropbox, Scribe, and a for-profit healthcare company.

which can be heard for hundreds of feet around them

From that linked article.

Hundreds of feet!

They aren’t building these 50 feet from residential properties. I don’t think this is an actual issue.

Watermarks for AI content is a non-starter, there’s no possible way to enforce this. Pandora’s box has been opened, and even if you mandated all the big AI companies do it, the open source models that exist (or will be developed) will be available to bypass it.

Nothing wrong with charging actual costs for electricity or expanding the grid with renewables. These are actually relevant ideas.

Noise pollution? I haven’t heard that one before. As long as the data centers aren’t running generators, the noise from them should be lower than almost any other industrial user.

Your statement is extremely ambiguous.

Will it be able to fully replace any single task? It already can.

Will it be able to replace every single task a human can do? Probably at some point.

A lot of that comes down to what a “task” is.

To some extent, yes, however, the companies building these systems are using heavily curated data for most of the things where that would matter. They aren’t just letting it free on the whole internet at this point, it would be absolutely useless.

If you think that isn’t factored in, you aren’t paying attention to how traders work.

I’m pretty sure his next act is actually to invade Cuba by building a bridge to it.

Don’t even need bombs, it’s not very wide that can shoot at them with artillery very easily.

You forgot your /s tag.

It’s not Israel’s war. Israel is just a proxy for the western nations against Iran and other middle eastern powers. Trump just went off half cocked again instead of following the steady plan to keep them subdued, which is why the rest of the countries are standing back.

Points are USD

Thats correct. Russia is not fighting that one on their own.

That’s how proxy wars work, yes.

Rag was never supposed to be about learning over time. It was supposed to provide better context at inference. It could never scale to handle new learning beyond focused concepts.