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Nvidia executive says AI is more expensive than human workers (fortune.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [M, B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 19 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The obvious solution is to build more data centers to benefit from economies of scale. Maybe we could get local communities to help subsidize the water and electricity costs too.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    Maybe we could get people into vats and hooked up to the data centres so the AI can use our brains for extra compute resource? But maybe that would be difficult for people to understand so we can gloss over it and just say they're there as batteries? But then why then block out the sun, the free source of energy? Meh, most people won't question that plot hole - lets go with the batteries thing.

    Oh wait, this isn't a Matrix sub?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Is that an actual plot hole? I always understood that the humans and machines were in a war, the humans blocked the sun to deprive the machines of energy. The machines then turned the humans into batteries.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Using them as batteries was forced on the Wachowski Sisters by the Studio because the Studio didn't think the audience would understand the orginal plan of using people as processing power.

    I mean using us for batteries is pretty dumb, we hardly generate any electricity, the AI could have just cows, as they generate more electric current than humans, and their simulation would be a lot simpler to manage.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    But then why then block out the sun, the free source of energy?

    Morpheus says in the first movie:

    We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky.

    So the humans blocked out the sun to stop the AI, and the AI adapted by turning the remaining humans into batteries.

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