The damage to the planet from AI Data Centers is a net negative. They would have to totally reform society. Expand green spaces, and reverse climate change in order to be worth while.
They’ve only done the opposite. We should be rid of them, as they will never pay off as much as they need to.
They are a net debt on humanity.
Keeping Sam Altman alive is wasteful.
This is just the typical capitalist/colonialist/expansionist playbook, and Altman is the kind of dude that would see absolutely no problem in actually, physically taking away the stuff from you. By letting your devices stand idle, you are being selfish and wasteful. He, on the other hand, wants us all to have access to his super awesome product.
Sam Altman drawing breath is wasteful
Altman should have to lease oxygen.
And should be denied it because of his credit history.
Its at times like this I am almost glad windows is shit. I could run a decent Linux gaming machine on the windows 11 bare minimum specs.
My daily runner is a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM. I have a bigger rig for fun and profit but that is just the side gig compared with this thing.
When I was 13, I’d kill for this setup
10 years ago I couldn’t have imagined this, brother
Sam Altman wants your RAM
Well when you are in an apocalyptic ai come and want to make a machine good to do everything for you, of course you think it’s selfish for people to not make the machine God.
For a long time now, silicon Valley has wanted people to only have thin clients just powerful enough to access their cloud services. AI and datacenter build out is the closest they’ve been to realizing this dream, so of course Altman is going to have this view.
And to that I say go to hell
Billionaire calls regular people wasteful.
He’s made statement that data centers are cheap to run, compared to human workers, because humans cost 18 years feeding and teaching them.
So he was saying AI can use some electilricity and give same answer as a human, but the humans cost more. People were like, wow, yeah right, he’s amazing.
Um how much did the data center cost to setup? LLM training, workers to clear the land, resource mining, all the labour to manufacture the resources unto data center infrastructure. Food resources to feed the builders, architects, labourers etc. etc. He glossed over that part.
Aside from tech billionaire being an asshole ……
Let me play devils advocate a bit here. Consider a voice assistant device. They’re cheap thing, basically only a microphone and network card, with minimal compute and memory, yet leverage cloud resources to do far more than such a cheap device could by itself.
Of course the real reason is he wants to hoard all the memory plus monetize your activities and track your every thought, but the point remains that voice assistandt devices can do far more with cloud than they could on their own
Because they’re explicitly deaigned to work that way.
I could install a voice assistant on my PC and have it do everything that the device with the cloud can do (except for steal and sell my data, charge me a monthly subscription fee, spy on me, etc.)
Having it be a standalone device is completely pointless (unless you value having your privacy violated) for the consumer, it only benefits the manufacturer and the service provider (and the databrokers they deal with).
Or you could have additional “access points” around your house that still just communicate with the voice assistant running on your computer on the same network. But no. It must be cloud. Your data must be harvested for the advertisers.
What good is advertising data when nobody has any money to spend on the things being advertised? temple tap
Consider a voice assistant device
Sounds like spyware to me.
It leverages resources to do nothing these ones want, though.
You know what, let’s try turning Altman into RAM. Surely that would be a better use of his Carbon and Silicon than his body, right? Surely he won’t mind becoming part of a datacenter, right?
RIGHT???
Why doesn’t he refine his models so they are not as ram hungry?
