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Flying Squid to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

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Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.
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    51•2 years ago

    The human body produces a lot of electrical impulses. What if they just took all their workers and put them in some type of “work pod” and harnessed the energy to run the large scale AI?

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      42•2 years ago

      They might get bored though. Maybe hook them up to some kind of virtual reality world.

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        Yes, and they could just live in the virtual reality so they never have to stop providing power. It’d be perfect

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          6•2 years ago

          Imagine spending chunks of time in there hooked up to a device set to lose weight. Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.

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            Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.

            It’s called meth.

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        9•2 years ago

        I mean you could have the AI make interesting scenarios for them!

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        12•2 years ago

        this is the matrix

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          11•2 years ago

          woosh

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          5•2 years ago

          NO, this is Patrick

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          4•2 years ago

          That’s the joke. The Wachowskis both ended up being trans sometime after they made The Matrix.

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          This is lemmy but it’s cool you can access it from matrix.

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      5•2 years ago

      It would cost more energy to feed them then they would produce. /s

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        2•2 years ago

        That’s just energy conversion. Loss is expected.

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      2•2 years ago

      This is what happens when you don’t teach your kids the Laws of Thermodynamics in school…

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