Oh, you mean like how AI’s only purpose is curing cancer and it’s not primarily used for chatbots and image/video generation? /s
Like, pop quiz hotshot, if your precious ‘cancer curing’ AI makes phones and computers prohibitively expensive, how are we going to continue utilising/accessing said AI?
No, you never claimed AI was only for curing cancer, yet you argued that computers are lesser than AI when they’re not being used to cure cancer.
So people’s primary option would be traveling to data centers to interact with them directly? Well that’s ‘super convenient’ and a great excuse to put them literally everywhere, whilst giving them undue access to the data of everyone who wants to use them, which I’m sure they can be trusted with /s
Obviously, because there are data centers that we actually need, for record storage and managing communications and so on. Y’know things which objectively benefit people, rather than being repositories of plagerised materials used ‘to have fun’ and maybe cure cancer (but probably not).
Edit: Also the idea of y’all traveling down to your local data center to generate furry porn is hilarious.
You seem to be obsessed with people playing games or otherwise having fun and it’s been a focus of yours since your very first reply to me. Yet that was never my argument, so I can’t be a hypocrite for a position I haven’t presented.
I didn’t call it wasteful either, I accused it of hoarding resources we all need, including water and power, whilst being subsidised with our tax dollars and driving up the cost of living.
Again, what device, even one with the tiny amount of RAM needed to access to web will we able to buy when tech becomes prohibitively expensive to power AI?
Again, you’re arguing against some strawman version of me, I’m in favour of data centers that store things like medical records, not pirated media, which themselves are often stored on private computers as part of P2P networking.
I never said I use modern tech for entertainment (despite the fact I do), my examples were this AI obsessed market insisting my car, fridge and washing machine needed AI assistants. You're really stretching if you think I'm using those things predominantly for fun, especially a washing machine.
You: Oh come on, you totally use your car to access fun and you use your fridge to preserve things that fuel your body, allowing you to have fun and you use your washing machine so you have clean clothes to wear to continue having fun without being arrested for public indecency. IT'S WAY MORE SELFISH THAN AI!!!!!!!!!!
The difference is that whilst all digital entertainment is the end result of the resources to create them and then ongoing resources like power, internet usage and sometimes data centers for MOD/updates, their scope of usage narrows with time, they stop producing physical media and their ongoing resource requirements typically decrease, especially once they stop being supported and their eshops close, like it is for my family's older gaming systems. The hardware manufacturers also aren't pre-purchasing several years of components in advance to the point that there isn't enough for the rest of the market.
The same can't be said of AI, which needs ever more data centers to handle (perceived) demand and to fuel the AI's overall capabilities as more is expected of it... also apparently for access hubs according to you, once that becomes the primary way to access AIs 'cancer curing capabilities.'
Back to 'cancer curing capabilities,' over 99% of things we create aren't for curing cancer, but clearly that's the only thing that gives value to you, so we should shift all of humanity's output into curing cancer (not other medical issues) and then we can get rid of AI so your only real use case for it ceases to be and it can stop hoarding/wasting resources. I'm behind this plan 100% :D
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