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There are two glaring problems with AI. First is the enormous power/energy suck needed to make the damn thing work. Google has already admitted that they won't hit their climate targets this year because of AI server loads, and a city in the Southwest (I forget the name) asked residents to raise their A/C temps because an AI server farm was using so much power.

Second is the fact that most of it isn't very good. Period. The images invariably look terrible in most cases, and it really can't do much more than look up and find, or 'copy and paste' when used for writing. It's glorified chat bots, and the soon our economic betters realize that, the better off we will be
Yes to all of this. Google, one of the biggest tech companies ever, not hitting climate targets is very bad.

And AI does indeed suck a good deal. Something I did on ChatGPT once, I asked it to write me a summary for an episode of Welcome Back Kotter, just to play around and have fun. And it was the stupidest episode of Welcome Back Kotter ever. I mean they put Bobarino on the debate team. Not even played for laughs. No understanding of the characters, totally dumb, made no sense. Another time I asked to draw me a picture of some actor dressed as Superman. It looked absurd. Like a symbol with no shirt, a mask. Just silly.

So bottom line AI as a whole needs to get better and way the fuck more efficient. I think in time people will come to realize the limitations and overall effects.
 
I read an essay once (I tried finding it just now, but I can't recall the name) about the issue with teleportation, and I'd assume it applies to this scenario as well.

I'll paraphrase; when you teleport, the person exiting the other machine is not you. You're dead. There's a new entity around, carrying your face, your memories, but not your soul. You're gone. But they're still here, and they think they're you.
This began my favorite webcomic
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1.
 
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