The Science and Technology Thread
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CDX_EIRE
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You can build a smaller building to the same capacity. Most Hyperscale (google, meta, etc.) Data Centers are built in the 80-100MW range. Those are typically in the ballpark 500k square feet but now we're almost able to cut that in half. A building might be more like 300-350k square feet.
I will say I don't understand what 80MW gets me exactly and all the technical elements of a DC are completely over my head. There is also a difference between AI and Cloud DCs which isn't massively clear either. Other than an AI DC is smaller and more powerful and requires way more cooling.
BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
They say it costs around $10 for Chat GPT to spit you out a half baked answer to your question.
The Chinese one costs $1.
Perhaps l'm just an old-fashioned, small-time businessman but giving something away for free that costs $10 every time someone uses it seems mental to me. Putting that thing on the internet so that kids can ask it nonsense questions that they don't actually want the answer to is just insane.
It's perfectly possible that I just don't understand the technology. My understanding is that this 'artificial intelligence' just scrapes the internet and spits out a cobbled together answer. There isn't any intelligence going on. It's not learning, it's just parroting answers. Is that correct?
The Chinese one costs $1.
Perhaps l'm just an old-fashioned, small-time businessman but giving something away for free that costs $10 every time someone uses it seems mental to me. Putting that thing on the internet so that kids can ask it nonsense questions that they don't actually want the answer to is just insane.
It's perfectly possible that I just don't understand the technology. My understanding is that this 'artificial intelligence' just scrapes the internet and spits out a cobbled together answer. There isn't any intelligence going on. It's not learning, it's just parroting answers. Is that correct?
Pangloss
Vital Football Legend
It’s really about API calls to the technology, the cost of this is proportional to the model used and the amount of tokens (text) passed to it.
Many companies use this technology to automate services and create new products. If something “just as good” can be used which costs a lot less then it’s a no brainier to switch to DeepSeek.
JuanPabloAngel
Alert Team
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.
Advanced Data Protection, external (ADP) means only account holders can view items such as photos or documents they have stored online through a process known as end-to-end encryption.
www.bbc.co.uk
Advanced Data Protection, external (ADP) means only account holders can view items such as photos or documents they have stored online through a process known as end-to-end encryption.
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
www.bbc.co.uk
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mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
That's on Apple not the law, and I patently disagree that they don't have a backdoor anyway.
BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
I've just seen a video on IG of two AI assistants talking to each other. When they realise they are both AI assistants, they switch to talking in bleeps that sound a bit like the internet dialing up.
Weird. Even weirder is I don't know if that video is real or fake.
What a time to be alive!
Weird. Even weirder is I don't know if that video is real or fake.
What a time to be alive!
buggyvillan
Vital Squad Member
The site Bluesnews.com aggregates mostly gaming stories but also has an AI section. Now and then they may put a comment after the link, like this one for Grok. I found it amusing.
Stephen Jay Hawkings
Vital Football Legend
NASA to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.
That should be interesting, because it will rule out flat earth theory and the fact that we can't visit the moon and never have. And the alien base on the dark side. 3 strikes right there.
www.bbc.com
That should be interesting, because it will rule out flat earth theory and the fact that we can't visit the moon and never have. And the alien base on the dark side. 3 strikes right there.
Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media
The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasibility.
www.bbc.com
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
NASA to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.
That should be interesting, because it will rule out flat earth theory and the fact that we can't visit the moon and never have. And the alien base on the dark side. 3 strikes right there.
Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media
The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasibility.
Hilarious.NASA to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.
That should be interesting, because it will rule out flat earth theory and the fact that we can't visit the moon and never have. And the alien base on the dark side. 3 strikes right there.
Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 - US media
The reactor would provide power for humans on the Moon but there are questions about feasibility.
That clown Milliband wants the UK all net zerod by 2030, and then the Yanks decide too go and fuck the moon up.
Villan57
Alert Team
Mate, we can't even figure out electric cars until 2035, I'm looking forward to seeing us control our air, some trick that will be fencing it in to keep the clean stuff just for us!Hilarious.
That clown Milliband wants the UK all net zerod by 2030, and then the Yanks decide too go and fuck the moon up.
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
Probably the right place, BBC News (or World Service) programme called the Engineers looking at weird and beautiful medical advancements currently taking place.
Quite fascinating and despite the panel of experts in each field they covered, it was nicely dumbed down for thick bastards like me.
Quite fascinating and despite the panel of experts in each field they covered, it was nicely dumbed down for thick bastards like me.
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
Scientists have for the first time located the "mileage clock" inside a brain - by recording the brain activity of running rats.
www.bbc.co.uk
Could have some interesting ramifications associated.
Scientists pinpoint the brain's internal mileage clock
They located this key area of function by recording the brain activity of running rats.
www.bbc.co.uk
Could have some interesting ramifications associated.
The Fear
A Wise Man (once sat next to him)
Scientists have for the first time located the "mileage clock" inside a brain - by recording the brain activity of running rats.
Scientists pinpoint the brain's internal mileage clock
They located this key area of function by recording the brain activity of running rats.
Could have some interesting ramifications associated.
Was wondering what ramifications but they mention one right at the end of the article. Interesting.
mike_field
Vital Football Legend & Fun Sponge
Yeah! You think I thought of that myself? I was being rhetoric.
