Fox News will change that. Soon, they will be building more of them to “own the libs”
They are all thinking that AI won’t take over my plumbing / electrical / hvac job. But I just saw a demonstrator bot that was trained on data from humans wearing pressure sensitive gloves. The robot had excellent hand movement and had very quick adaptability. So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
I too have incredibly sensitive hands.
But I pay a plumber because his track record of flooding my house is 0%, while my own flooding track record is… not 0%.
I learned that the 0% rate of flooding is the most important thing, to me personally, when it comes to plumbing work.
Don’t ask me how I learned that. It is neither interesting, nor hilarious, nor deeply embarrassing to me personally, or anything. It’s just my lived experience of doing my own plumbing.
There’s currently no credible evidence that the hallucinating problem in AI can ever be solved, at all.
AI does quick shoddy work. Some quick shoddy work by AI is easily fixed by a human (or fixed by a second AI for those feeling frisky and risky.) But some quick shoddy work by AI is instantly tragic, leaving no time for fixes. (As shown by any quick search for the words “AI” and “database”.)
I do agree that we will have robot plumbers available, soon.
If their work matches the quality of work done by AI coders, some houses are going to burn down.
Yes, I said “some” and “burn down.”.
Many houses will flood. That’s not the interesting bit. A few will manage to burn down. That’ll be novel and interesting to watch, for those of us not trying to live there.
I plan to stick with skilled human trades-people, myself.
Edit: And I want to point out that it’s a privilege to hire skilled humans, that I appreciate. We know some landlords are going to send in a bot with the words “fuck you, you flooded my home” graffitied on it, at every opportunity, because it’s slightly cheaper.
Americans are turning against AI data centers over rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs. Discover what’s driving the backlash.
Is it the rising energy costs, tax breaks, and layoffs?
To be fair, it could also be the clean water consumption, eco system destruction, extensive local warming effects, and noise pollution too.
Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.
It’s not like Altman and Amodei telling everyone how AI is perennially 6 months away from taking everyone’s job is helping create that warm and fuzzy feeling for the technology either
Only 35% of voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center in their community, down from 69% in 2023. Support for state tax breaks for data centers also fell from 61% to 37% over the same period.
37% of people still support what now?
The boomers can’t hear the infrasound, and don’t care about how Altman says it’s gonna take everyone’s jobs because they’re retired and stonk go up
Yes. And they desperately need stonk go up, because their life savings has been plundered by the Epstein class, multiple times.
But they’re too busy trying to stay afloat to think critically and do something real about it. Or too brain damaged by lead additives, in some cases.
Those supporting numbers look familiar. What’s the venn diagram of AI data center supporters and Trump supporters look like?
Yes. It’s pretty close to a circle. The shared trait is getting suckered by a fast talking abuser.
Although - The giant trump yard sign in my community fell into disrepair.
Every time I see (what is left of) it, I’m guessing which demographic the owner is it, that Trump finally hurt badly enough to wake them up.
It could be anyone, really.
It’s wild to me that anyone ever thought a politician could be on their side, of anything, in this millennium. But I guess I’m glad that random ex-sucker is woke now.
That 37% hasn’t been near one. Promise 0 % that live near one enjoy having it there.
Especially when they have no water, the noise level is terrible and all thier electric bills went up three times.
I work at and live near one. I have zero objection. I love that my commute is short enough to get to work by bicycle.
We use less water than an average lawyer office - mostly the toilets. All of the generators added together make less noise than a landscape crew working on my neighbors house. Our building construction actually added electrical capacity to our county.
I accept that many other companies do it wrong. We do not. The industry is not monolithic. There are some bad actors that make us look bad.
Whatever that’ll cause GPU prices to go down so I can run more AI inference at home.
Good, AI needs to go away
