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LMAO, trust the AI. (hexbear.net)
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[-] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago

Bill Gates is not a technology expert, he's a business man. like all tech CEOs he has no idea what he's talking about. he never created anything in his life, he pays other people to do that. all he knows is how to turn money into more money

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

The only thing attributed to him he essentially stole, to add icing on that cake. MS-DOS was not cooked from scratch.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

I believe he borrowed money from his parents to buy DOS, for a lot less than it was worth.

Bezos also borrowed money from his step-dad to start Amazon. hmm seems to be a theme with all these "self-made" billionaires

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Business freaks will repeat the axiom "you gotta spend money to make money!" and expect us not to find out about the loan from daddy that undergirds every "rags to riches" story of modern elites.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

He also invented a better algorithm for sorting pancakes by size.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

If I were in the 70s, I woulda stolen a copy of Altair BASIC.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

And Bill Gates mom? She was on the same board as the CEO of IBM and was instrumental in getting the licensing deal

[-] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago

will ultimately identify ways to cut power consumption

The poors will be forced to turn off the heat in winter

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Field reliability call center workers will be replaced with IVR systems integrated with generative text-to-speech prompts. Some numbnuts telecom sub-subcontractor is going to call in a line locate, get a complete gibberish answer from the bazinga machine, and start boring right into a gas main, thus sending everything in a three-block radius to Valhalla. But the energy corporations' CEOs will get to line their own pockets with some investment money in the meantime, as hedgies salivate over power and gas stonks getting in on the AI hype train. The C-suite goons will get golden parachutes while the workers shoulder the blame for upper management's shitty decisions.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Again, we just need to burn down HALF the rain forest not the whole thing to get a language model that tells us cancer is good for your skin.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

wow the "one good billionaire" is just as stupid and destructively greedy as all the other ones? shocking.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The term billionaire was named after him for a reason

think-about-it

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Bill need not worry about the revolution reappropriating his hoard of wealth, he will adapt

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

don't worry about AI gobbling up energy, tech will adapt

Sure there's a lot of promising research into using less power to run the same models, but that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

AI will identify ways

Oh. Well. LMAO it is then.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

that just means that the savings will be used on even bigger models.

There's a name for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

The AI just keeps coming up with trains or crabs. thonk

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Shinra boss robot

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Extreme this-is-fine energy

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

lol die binch

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

I wish Bill a very happy falling into a pit and dying mysteriously

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I wish Bill a very happy falling into a pit and dying painfully and obviously, preferably with some sort of subterranean beetle eating him from the inside out

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Bill just hasn't been the same since he lost his adrenochrome plug on Little Saint James epstein

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I hope for everyone’s sake that he knows he’s lying. There will indeed be further optimizations in AI computation energy efficiency. There will eventually be ASICs for training models which run a non-standard form of floating point representation which is optimized for LLM training. Those will be more energy efficient. But the idea that LLMs or any near-future iteration on them will be the catalyst for those optimizations is nonsense.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Actual AI might eventually achieve that.

LLMs fucking won't though.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Dudeswho have fully bought onto selfish gene theorem insist an AI will willingly find ways to cut it's resources.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

the tech industry treats tech like a religion, bunch of ghouls

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I don’t always take moral advice from sociopathic wealth hoarders but when I do!..

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Don’t worry about AI gobbling up energy, let me worry about blank.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Interestingly, this is the exact same shit cryptocurrency nerds said

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I don't remember cryptobros ever having a refutal that wasn't "etherium will switch to stake any day now" but libs always do say some dumb shit like "don't worry, the invisible hand works in mysterious ways"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

nah they have other stuff, they'll talk about how like cryptocurrencies will encourage a move to green energy and magically resolve inefficiencies and shit. "Bitcoin is a store of energy" is a funny phrase they'll bandy about too

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

thinking-about-it I wonder if rampant unchecked climate change is going to increase the value of the suspiciously large amount of farmland Bill Gates has been buying.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Gates needs to unfriend Kurzweil he has no defence against these brainworms

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Trust the technological equivalent of the Ford Pinto.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Tech bros genuinely believe that their glorified automated text generators and such will solve something? Talk about magical thinking.

The times I've had to listen to people like this explain to others how great systemic thinkers they are and how much better they are at understanding basically everything then anyone else and these are the takes they have on "AI"... It's both funny and pathetic.

It also looks like these supposedly smartest of the smart don't actually get it at all.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
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