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The Layperson's Guide to AI Hype (blog.curtii.com)
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[–] j4p@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

AGI itself won't end us, but the land, water and energy needs of the massive data centers needed to scale up the computation needed for AI development sure are gonna try

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

AGI itself won’t end us

I've yet to hear a good argument for why it couldn't. I don't think it definitely will but it's a real possibility.

[–] j4p@lemm.ee 2 points 19 minutes ago

Right now I feel like its more that it's a hypothetical, while the resource extraction of the AI hype is very real.