OlfinBedwere said:
CaptainExplosion said:
Since when can there be an AI without a data centre? The only AI I see these days is the kind that wastes water, steals from human artists, makes child porn, blows up Iranian civilians, and makes heat islands. All this is because small minded billionaires wanted to save even more money, not caring that they're golden goose is destroying the world one way or another. |
Well, from a consumer standpoint, since around 2018 or so, which was when Nvidia first included the technology in their GPUs. The likes of Google and OpenAI might offer AI products run from the massive data centres you're talking about, but the truth of the matter is that anyone with access to a PC with a reasonably modern GPU (or a CPU with AI features) and a decent amount of memory can run an AI model on their computer. It just takes a lot of technical know-how to get it running properly, it'd run far slower than the commercially-available options, and you're limited to open-source models. Besides, AI is a much broader field than I think you realize. Not only does it include the likes of DLSS and FSR upscaling, but applications like Photoshop and video editing suites make use of the technology to greatly accelerate tasks that would take far longer than if they just ran on the CPU - and, ironically, this is something that actually saves energy, since it means the CPU spends a lot less time running flat-out than it would otherwise. |
Still doesn't take away from the fact that data centers are destroying the economy and the environment. This is the biggest environmental crisis since oil spills.
Like I said before, the AI future isn't bright like in Mega Man Battle Network. We don't have AIs willingly helping the world, we just have ones destroying it. -_-
