• IBM's CEO walked through some napkin math on data centers— and said that there's "no way" to turn a profit at current costs.
  • "$8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest," Arvind Krishna told "Decoder."
  • Krishna was skeptical of that current tech would reach AGI, putting the likelihood between 0-1%.
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"Never interfere with an enemy while they are making a mistake"

We can quibble about if they are true enemies but these AI companies are certainly not our allies.

I hope to live long enough to see Facebook/Google/Amazon be acquired by an investment firm and sold for parts.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Meh, better they get ordered to become Nationalized, all their IP licensed GNU, a budget allocated for their maintenance, data harvesting stripped, and anyone can submit PRs.

    True public infrastructure.

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