• roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    That’s funny because before AI that’s just about the number of people who were to become water insecure by 2030 due to the melting of land ice cause by global warming.

  • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
    11 hours

    I love how I’m being promoted to use AI on an article about the excessive resource use of AI.

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13 hours

    I don’t understand why though. Can’t they reuse the water? It’s just for cooling right?once it’s used it’s warm. When you let it cool down you can reuse it. A closed system. Why is that not possible?

    • Buckshot@programming.devEnglish
      13 hours

      My understanding is that evaporative cooling is cheaper so it’s not a closed system. Constantly use new fresh, cold water and you don’t need something to cool down the hot water. Just dump it and let it evaporate or whatever.

    • DeanTheCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      Because it’s cheaper to let the water evaporate rather than using a closed loop system.

  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19 hours

    Yeah, but think about the benefits! Tons of people will become unemployed, and the environment will get ruined…

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24 hours

    Nah, the bubble will have popped by then. Honestly, most people will probably be using fewer resources because the post bubble recession could be severe.

    When people finally realize that AI, robots, big space rockets, and self driving cars are not feasible and/or not enough to sustain our infinite growth economy, it’s going to be kinda like realizing you forgot your parachute just after you jumped out of the plane.

    • Triumph@fedia.io
      23 hours

      In the meantime, we’re training an entire generation to not think.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        English
        14 hours

        too late, studies already shown students do very horribly when they use AI for most of thier HS or COLLege Years. thier math and reading skills dropped sharply. Not to mention, it was already quite bad prior to AI. my bro who is in tech has relegate all his critical thinking into AI, he cant even think for himself without using it. like one time how to deal with Flies in the house.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        22 hours

        Not thinking is an essential skill for surviving in the technofascist world they’re building for us.

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20 hours

          Citizens will be well behaved, because we’re recording and watching everything they do

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23 hours

      Remember how long Facebook worked on the Metaverse? And even changed their name to Meta because Zuckerberg was convinced he was on to something. Now many years and billions upon billions of dollars later the project is finally shelved as a total failure.

      Also remember Tesla/Musk has kept promising true FSD next year for a decade, and they are barely closer today than they were a decade ago. Yet they keep investing loads of money on it, and promising that very soon now, it will be available for all Tesla cars.

      Remember when Microsoft launched the Xbox, and stated they were ready to lose billions on it for 10 years if they had to. That one succeeded, but later when they tried the same with Smartphones and bought Nokia they didn’t.

      You are clearly underestimating how many billions the trillion dollar companies are ready to lose on this. in the pursuit of coming out on top. That’s how it is with AI too, the companies that spend the most on AI are companies that have loads and loads of money. And they can easily continue this shit for a decade without running out of money, and they will because they are determined and can afford it.

      The bubble may burst, but it will probably mostly affect all the small players, and maybe dent the stock prices of the big players a little. But don’t count on it to be over in just a couple of years.

      Hopefully it will, but my guess is it won’t. My guess is that none of the biggest players will relent for at least 5 years. But when the bubble burst, it could be even bigger than when the .com bubble did.

      We live in interesting times.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      English
      14 hours

      the first sign of the bubble popping is when all these tech conference stopped peddling AI, or they disappear from the regions where the AI startup conventions go to. im in the west coast, and AI conventions are here weekly, if not more than once a week, its solely AI, rather than other tech.

    • XiELEd@piefed.socialEnglish
      22 hours

      Small and Free Local LLMs getting better may also drive the popping of the bubble. In fact some people use the Commerical Frontier AI Models for the simplest thing, and if there’s one thing I learned AI uses the same resources for the simplest and hardest questions.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20 hours

        Who are you telling to pop it that’s connected to the first thing you said

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
      23 hours

      It’s the race to the nuclear bomb again, only this time both sides play for real and both sides know the other side is playing.

      Whoever wins will dominate the world. Stopping is no option.

        • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
          11 hours

          AI is already a better search engine for code. The programming skills will become so good that it can create minimal viable products. All the ideas that have been abandoned for lack of funding, they will be realized.

          It will become good enough for autonomous killer drones.

          Unlike nuclear bombs, the drones will be deployed.

    • goatinspace@feddit.orgEnglish
      23 hours

      Because gatorade has electrolytes and energy drinks have taurine and other tihs

  • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
    14 hours

    I’ll read the paper later, currently I just read the press release and I’m a bit baffled at these numbers.

    I wonder how they came up with them.

  • tangeli@piefed.socialEnglish
    20 hours

    It’s not a problem. Those people won’t have a job by 2030. They won’t have money to buy water. Might as well let AI use it.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    16 hours

    Linux usage will hit 100% the next decade by this logic!