This is closer to training a large breed to ring fight non stop while injecting it with muscle growth hormones, then leaving it unattended with some shoddily staked 2’ high chicken wire as its enclosure. Then it escapes and kills children.

It’s been the same thing with driverless cars and deaths.

Non technical people think even less, and are obviously less knowledgeable yet they too believe the squawk box without question. It’s so much easier to not have to think, as if it’s trying to flex an atrophied limb that now just causes pain on any attempt.

So those in charge are murderous and treasonous war crime monsters who undertook unconstitutional actions as Congress never even green lit this? Sounds like the Epstein files are likely accurate and the real death toll isn’t those foreign children, but your own and your neighbors. Time for prison or better, the permanent solution.

When experts say AI will destroy humanity, people think of robot “kill all humans” armies and super intelligence taking over. How it already almost happened is slop brained “secretary of war” kegsbreath demanded we use AI in the military despite warnings. Then everything from AI slop reports leading to bombing over a hundred children in a school to slop reports of nuclear weapons materials being shipped by China nearly started WWIII. It’s not going to end the world by solving the physics of the universe causing a singularity that ends existence, it’s forcing brain rot onto those in charge until they blindly do what the stupid word spewing box commands that will end it.

You mean in the next 3 years. The half life of server hardware including gpu and storage means that in about 4 years (historically) you can purchase the same performance for half the cost. Right now, less than 30% of all purchased hardware is installed, the majority is sitting warehoused somewhere just losing value by the day. The “we can’t get the electrical service to run it” is just an admission they have fomo so bad they are willing to risk the bottom line of the company to over purchase without any realistic plans of being able to use the hardware meaningfully.

You mean like the US where the president rug pulls his own base?

Not altogether different from polymorphism in chemistry and as soon as a lower energy form gets created, the fallout of nucleation sites makes making some higher energy forms insanely difficult. It would be hilarious if it hit critical mass and spread through systems shutting down everything electronic, banks, infrastructure like electricity and water, modern cars, everything with a sizable computer. Mainly because nothing is automated fully and it is not going to ever be at this rate.

However, the anthropic/hugging face incident clearly outlines how a modest amount of tokens (by a corporation) and a modern model can spin up an ecosystem of agents that are extreemly adept at breaking things. After all, it’s far easier to destroy than create. It’s also very easy to distill a trillion dollar effort in models with a few million dollars, effectively ripping off their rip off of all human knowledge. This makes all the money spent in R&D and server hardware with a half life of 3-4 years, nearly worthless when you can just use an open source model nearly as capable slightly later.

The new models aren’t even any better at executive functions, despite narrow task performance improvements meaning no more job displacement. So “we need to slow down for safety” means they want to continue investing despite a lack of improvement, and hopefully get a bailout while making open source AI a felony to possess so only a handful of companies can monopolize it.

Cryptocurrency does have some valuable uses, outside brokerages anyway. You can transfer money into or out of countries bypassing their banks and laws, and even international agreements. It enables money laundering, and allows for payments to and from criminal organizations. Those right there are very sound business cases that won’t be going away and provide strong underpinning of its value, though which token is self reinforcing and needs critical mass so it’s only something like bitcoin and maybe a few others. It’s also more convenient than tulip bulbs for speculation.

Batteries that are cost effective largely solve the intermittent renewable problem. Lithium batteries aren’t even suited to anything more than very short term storage of minutes to a few hours, lithium was developed for energy and power density, able to sustain vibration and impacts without damage (such as being dropped without dents), and the cost can be relatively high as these are mobile device requirements like for laptops, power tools, and EV.

Grid storage is almost diametrically opposed. Energy and power density almost don’t matter at all, if a lithium battery needs to be a ten foot cube, something 100 times less dense mass or power wise is only 46 feet. They can be extremely fragile, and not work under vibration or movement. Low cycle cost lifetime is extremely important. It’s also much more important to have a high efficiency of discharge energy to charge energy. So really lithiums only make sense in niche cases and it’s why pumped hydro is still the vast majority of stored kWh.

The data is from actual use in 2025.

An average text response takes 0.0003 KwH of energy, and 0.1s of server time. That much energy used per 0.1 second is about 10kW. My wording and your complaint was about a single hosting of an image, not thousands or millions. A single hosting of a screenshot uses about 0.0000004 Watt-hours (Wh) per year.

Despite being 15% of all data center usage, AI data centers accounted for 50% of all new electrical demand and are expected to be 70% of all data center growth through 2030. You don’t need kW of energy to store or host an image, but you do to host AI. To put it in a car analogy, it’s like saying republicans hate cars instead of saying EV. You lose a lot when you drop the qualifier like you did.

Republicans, as in the constituents, are largely against data centers as well. All AI and data centers do for them is threaten their jobs, devalue their property, and increase the cost of utilities. Maybe if there was a bit of socialism in giving back there would be a silver lining. But at this rate we are looking at more of a silver ammunition situation.

No, in America the extremely wealthy and well connected have never ever been held responsible for their behavior even once. Well, I guess if you steal from too many other ultra wealthy you might be, but outside of that no.