‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers | Fortune
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Big Tech has announced $740 billion in capex this year, but AI has yet to show evidence of widespread increased productivity.
  • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    201·
    3 days ago

    The obvious solution is to build more data centers to benefit from economies of scale. Maybe we could get local communities to help subsidize the water and electricity costs too.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Maybe we could get people into vats and hooked up to the data centres so the AI can use our brains for extra compute resource? But maybe that would be difficult for people to understand so we can gloss over it and just say they’re there as batteries? But then why then block out the sun, the free source of energy? Meh, most people won’t question that plot hole - lets go with the batteries thing.

      Oh wait, this isn’t a Matrix sub?

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        or the space station on star trek enterprise, where the AI was abuducting aliens and using humanoid brains for the same thing to power its computing power.

      • wr2623@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        But then why then block out the sun, the free source of energy?

        Morpheus says in the first movie:

        We don’t know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky.

        So the humans blocked out the sun to stop the AI, and the AI adapted by turning the remaining humans into batteries.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Is that an actual plot hole? I always understood that the humans and machines were in a war, the humans blocked the sun to deprive the machines of energy. The machines then turned the humans into batteries.

        • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Using them as batteries was forced on the Wachowski Sisters by the Studio because the Studio didn’t think the audience would understand the orginal plan of using people as processing power.

          I mean using us for batteries is pretty dumb, we hardly generate any electricity, the AI could have just cows, as they generate more electric current than humans, and their simulation would be a lot simpler to manage.