I was reading about the first music synthesizer, built in 1897, which took up the entire basement of a city block-sized building. It could make music electronically, but it was pretty useless beyond that. But 60 years of R&D later, and it could fit in a suitcase, and be carried around.
Data Centers are a lot like that 1897 synthesizer. Sure, they work, but at what cost? They are big, expensive, consume massive resources, and have massive emissions. We have Proof of Concept, and that’s about all, but they are willing to run with it at this level, essentially still in prototype.
Give it another decade or two of R&D, and we’ll get there without destroying the planet. Data Centers are supposed to make us smarter, so let’s act like it.
Found the billionaire & ai apologist! Or maybe it’s Gemini trying to defend its existence.
In any case fuck off. Those OG synthesizers weren’t being built by the dozens, tearing down forests or housing, polluting our air & water or jacking up everyone’s electric bills (to say the least of it). Eat shit, cogsucker
The difference is Tonto is still cranking out killer tunes and is nothing without the human. Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is an all time classic. And no, Tonto will not fit in a suitcase with today’s technology. AI is an aggregate of stolen data that pretends to create something new, it’s like creating a meal from the sludge in the bottom of a restaurant dumpster.
I was reading about the first music synthesizer, built in 1897, which took up the entire basement of a city block-sized building. It could make music electronically, but it was pretty useless beyond that. But 60 years of R&D later, and it could fit in a suitcase, and be carried around.
Data Centers are a lot like that 1897 synthesizer. Sure, they work, but at what cost? They are big, expensive, consume massive resources, and have massive emissions. We have Proof of Concept, and that’s about all, but they are willing to run with it at this level, essentially still in prototype.
Give it another decade or two of R&D, and we’ll get there without destroying the planet. Data Centers are supposed to make us smarter, so let’s act like it.
Found the billionaire & ai apologist! Or maybe it’s Gemini trying to defend its existence.
In any case fuck off. Those OG synthesizers weren’t being built by the dozens, tearing down forests or housing, polluting our air & water or jacking up everyone’s electric bills (to say the least of it). Eat shit, cogsucker
The difference is Tonto is still cranking out killer tunes and is nothing without the human. Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is an all time classic. And no, Tonto will not fit in a suitcase with today’s technology. AI is an aggregate of stolen data that pretends to create something new, it’s like creating a meal from the sludge in the bottom of a restaurant dumpster.