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[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh ez, that's only 17 orders of magnitude!

If we managed an optimistic pace of doubling every year that'd only take.... 40 years. The last few survivors on desert world can ask it if it was worth it

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Rather amusing prediction that despite the obscene amount of resources being spent on AI compute already, it's apparently reasonable to expect to spend 1,000,000x that in the "near future".

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cool graph what's the x axis

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What these people don't realize is you're never gonna get AGI by just feeding a machine an infinite amount of raw data.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago

Check out my new startup at modestproposal.ai

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

Oh, that’s why the orphan crushing machine exists. Completely realistic, actually.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

That reminds me, wonder if all the mods already got updated for the new version of rimworld.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or: Let's not do that at a time where our energy consumption is literally killing the planet we live on.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

You don't understand, after we invent ~~god~~ AGI all our problems are solved. Now step into the computroniuminator, we need your atoms for more compute.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't see why people are so blind on this. Computation is energy-intensive, and we are yet to optimize it for the energy. Yet, all the hopes..

[–] DivineDev@kbin.run 12 points 1 year ago

We do optimize, it's just that when you decrease the energy for computations by half, you just do twice the computations to iterate faster instead of using half the energy.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that looks like someone used win9x mspaint to make a flag, fucked it up, and then fucked it up even more on the saving throw

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any vexollologist around to confirm this?

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

vexologist here. This certainly is vexing.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

Surprised this isn't a bluecheck.

But maybe it's not visible.