Nvidia reveals DLSS 5 , essentially applies AI filter to games in real time.

[Shadow1980]

Disgusting. Just... disgusting. Almost makes me want to preemptively give up on future generation of video games.

curl-6 said:

Stuff like deepfake revenge/child porn, workers being laid off en masse, AI scams and misinformation, skyrocketing prices for RAM/electricity/etc, rampant slop content clogging the internet, the devaluation of art, environmental damage, etc aren't what "could happen", they are happening right now. You don't have to "think hard enough" to find the negatives, the applications of AI in its current form are overwhlemingly negative.

Pretty much all of this. I wrote a long post about this a couple of months ago, so I'll keep it short-ish, but so-called "A.I." is indeed a massive net negative. All of this destruction, all of this effort to force Plagiarism Bot 3000 on us, as if every new gee-whiz tech fad from Silicon Valley has to be "THE INEVITABLE FUTURE™ SO GET USED TO IT, LUDDITE!!!" They don't care if they have to destroy everything from the environment to the very soul of human creativity in the process. "A.I." reeks of a get-rich-quick scheme, a desperate last-ditch attempt at making the line go up in a moribund economic system. Capitalism will be the death of us all, and fossil fuel and tech companies are leading the charge. If it were up to me, "A.I" would be banned and all those new data centers being put up would be bulldozed and replaced with something actually useful.

KLXVER said:

We use more electricity now then we did 10 years ago. And we used more electricity then than 10 years before. Its just the way it goes. 

That's not really true anymore, at least in advanced economies. On a per capita basis, electricity use did indeed climb substantially over the 20th century, which makes sense considering more and more households had electricity to the point of being near universal by mid century, then after WW2 more and more households started buying more creature comforts like household appliances and central heating & air. The latter is actually the largest driver of household energy use. But now just about every household that wants or needs those things has them, and for the past decade per capita electricity use in most advanced economies has not only stopped growing about 15-20 years, but has actually declined a bit thanks to increased energy efficiency. Turns out that household energy use does have a rough upper limit and doesn't continue to grow exponentially. In fact, U.S. electricity generation has remained relatively flat since the mid 00s, despite the increase in population, hence the downward trend in per capita use.

Anything that causes an explosion in electricity generation in developed nations is purely optional. Up until this point, we've been generating all we need for pretty much all residential and commercial purposes.