It makes sense with the context in the article, but “triples that of 650 million” is a very strange way to say “almost 2 billion”.
Also funny that the other big number, 1.3 billion, is literally double 650 million. Maybe they split it it up because the numbers are tied to specific geographic areas with specific water/energy quantities but yeah it does not read very well
Written by ai?
Why mix units? Match 1.3billion for water. Why not say match 1.95 billion for power, instead of 3x650 million.
Maybe they did the text with an AI.
Probably because they refer to the bottom 650 million and the number gets less impressive as you move to people who actually have daily access to a power grid.
Fuck this.
I remember in the 00s imagining what AI might be like.
I did not imagine soulless chat bot that was going to steal all the water.
Because it’s not real ai. It’s just marketing.
There’s no guarantee, that team AI wouldn’t be even worse.
You play too many video games if you think AI means Cortana. Computer scientists have been building artificial intelligence since the 1950s
Algorithms and expert machines a weren’t and aren’t AI. Can’t say that I’ve ever played Halo so have no idea about that. This is Lemmy though, so you shouldn’t be surprised that I’ve watched most if Trek, read The Culture and the Asimov robot books.
Expert machines are AI, genetic algorithms are AI, state machines are AI, and the perceptron was AI.
That’s because AI stands for artificial intelligence, and all of those technologies are attempts to artificially produce intelligence.
You are technically correct.
But non-technical people assume AI to be AGI, which LLMs are not nor ever will be.
That’s because non-technical people watch far more movies than computer science lectures. They think AI is that thing from the movies.
Thanks, gatekeeper! Is margarine real butter? Is saccharine real sugar? Is Lemmy real Internet? Is baseball real sports?
I bet it’s all marketing, all the way down. Nothing is real.
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Yes well part of it
It’s just rounders. A primary school game.
triples that of 650 million
Wouldn’t saying
nearly as much as 2 billion peoplebe the same and more efficient?Perhaps it was written by AI
This completely ignores that fresh water production is regional. I’m tired of that shit. It’s something else to use x amount of water in Amazon jungle and something else to use same amount in the desert. The notion that you could just provide third world countries with water from US is moronic.
Then they’ll “lay off” those people.
You’ll tell people that and then they keep using AI…
What if we as a society decided to just not?
Good use of our resources
Why don’t they make this the first problem AI should solve?
They sort of claim AI is going to do that. Someone said AI could solve climate change. Which is hilarious because it’s actually accelerating it currently.
It’s stupid how much they are pouring into hardware that might be vastly obsolete. By the time AI becomes truly intelligent, there may be specialized chips that are efficient at running models that blow GPUs out of the water.
Look at how it happened to bitcoin mining. Nobody serious is using a GPU to mine when ASIC is available.
However, I don’t see all this hardware hitting the second hand market once a better solution is found. I’m sure they will keep trying to make compute hard to get for the average person so they can rent out their servers for a crazy price.
Its worse. The expected life span of the compute server hardware is 2 years. The processors cannot be re-purposed and the memory needs to be re-packaged in a non-novel way. They will most likely send it too ewaste processing to get the precious and rare earth metals back.
By the time AI becomes truly intelligent, there may be specialized chips that are efficient at running models that blow GPUs out of the water.
Truly intelligent? What?
I wouldn’t call what we have now as true artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean that we will not achieve it in the future.
Personally, I don’t think we can characterize LLMs as “intelligent”, since they are statistical machines.
But given that most experts don’t even agree on what intelligence is, I don’t think we’ll ever reach a point where AI could be called “intelligent” anyway.
Are humans not also statistical machines though?
Only if they suffer from bipolar disorder.
Don’t forget to shower less and only use paper straws
Drinking needs or net water usage?
I might be going against the grain here but honestly it doesnt seem like that much. This article is really misleading in how it frames these stats.
