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submitted 4 months ago by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

cool graph what's the x axis

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

Bitcoin.

[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh ez, that's only 17 orders of magnitude!

If we managed an optimistic pace of doubling every year that'd only take.... 40 years. The last few survivors on desert world can ask it if it was worth it

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Rather amusing prediction that despite the obscene amount of resources being spent on AI compute already, it's apparently reasonable to expect to spend 1,000,000x that in the "near future".

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What these people don't realize is you're never gonna get AGI by just feeding a machine an infinite amount of raw data.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You’re right. We should move onto feeding it orphans

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

Check out my new startup at modestproposal.ai

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, that’s why the orphan crushing machine exists. Completely realistic, actually.