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“Steel, concrete, and code”: Feds and Telus announce three AI data centres in BC | BetaKit (betakit.com)
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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The interior is facing one of the worst summers in decades. Hot, dry weather and water restrictions everywhere. Not entirely sure hyper-thirsty data centres are such a good idea unless their cooling systems are mostly closed.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    once the chatbots evolve into skynet, they'll invent magical technologies that solve all of our problems for us

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    All jokes aside, nobody actually thinks chatbots will achieve sentience.

    The most established engineers working on "AI" (I use this term because it's a common term, not because I support the term in this context) believe a combination of models - especially world models - will be what eventually achieves some semblance of sentience.

    Even Anthropic, the Claude people, don't think LLMs will achieve sentience. They say they think LLMs are the path to machine sentience, which is a different thing.

    But regardless, I believe von neumann architecture is insufficient to achieve sentience. I have no data to back up this belief.

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