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lapfog_1

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4. much like the internet, and computing before that

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:48 AM

Jun 11

AI is a tool. Regulated and constrained, with good ( and legal ) data to feed the LLMs, it can be used to create a lot of good in the world. Unregulated and with bad data, it can be used for great harm. AI doesn't "think", it relates "facts" ( and sometimes lies ), sometimes in ways we humans cannot. That can produce the sensation that AI is thinking, but it does not think. It doesn't have original thoughts.

Hate it all you want, but it is coming ( actually here now ) and there isn't any going backward. Yes it will be disruptive. Much like assembly lines disrupted hand crafted industry over a 100 years ago.

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Oh, Thank God!!! Proposals In Motion For More Than 100 New Power Plants In TX, Because AI [View all] hatrack Jun 11 OP

A bil has passed the Texas Senate with disincentives for renewables. surfered Jun 11 #1

the ridiculous thing is that this will not be needed lapfog_1 Jun 11 #2

Well, that's not a comforting thought EYESORE 9001 Jun 11 #3

much like the internet, and computing before that lapfog_1 Jun 11 #4

Not the same. GenAI models, LLMs, work as well as they do (and they fail a lot) only because of the theft of highplainsdem Jun 11 #6

Absolutely! These systems should be illegal, imo! SheltieLover Jun 11 #7

Yes, and we must burn more coal and more gas - all of it, in fact - to power Shiny New Thing hatrack Jun 12 #9

Years ago, I marveled that no matter how fast CPU's got, Microsoft made them run slowly OKIsItJustMe Jun 11 #8

Well of course, as has been demonstrated over the last decade or so - werdna Jun 11 #5