Small power plants are less efficient and more polluting than larger ones. They are also harder to inspect and certify on a regular schedule. A single 1GW power facility in your county is much better than 10000 small power plants, one for each business.
True, centralized power generation using a grid that can carry that load would be the best solution. But in absence of that, the alternatives only seem to be between inefficient decentralized green and inefficient decentralized non-green solutions. In that case, I'd opt for the green ones. (Or of course: no datacenter at all)
LOL. You’d need thousands of acres of solar panels to provide power for a single data center. Of course the exact area needed depends on what part of the world you’re in, but are you going to put up with 4 square miles of solar panels in your city? That’s a square two miles on a side, or 3.4km×3.4km. Or are you going to let them install hundreds of wind turbines in your neighborhood?
Yes. I've seen the AI usage patterns from people at the top of these kind of leaderboards, they understand that they are not doing things that they expect to produce commensurate value. At best they've inferred (sometimes correctly!) that the existence of the leaderboard means leadership has decided it's OK to burn prodigous amounts of token on any experimental thing one can imagine that might be useful.
> Do you think ai usage will decrease due to this change ?
Frivolous usage sure, internally at Amazon there is a subculture (if you can call it that) of award chasers. Using Kiro for mundane task to burn tokens does not sound that far-fetched.
Overall usage though no I don't think so, these tools have some pretty wide adoption at this point and not by people chasing awards.
If the language is unreadable for humans, we really can't trust that it does what it claims to do, except by testing. This requires more trust in the system than is warranted IMO. You can never be sure that there's no "sleeper" logic waiting to get activated. See "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. If we build systems that start relying on opaque mechanisms, it seems to be only a matter of time before things start behaving in ways contrary to what their authors intended, with no clear way to stop it other than hitting the power button, if that's even possible at that point.
This isn't true. There are solutions that are beyond apparent reason and logic. This is what a "breakthrough" is.
> The order and combination is what makes it special.
Given an infinite amount of time a team of monkeys will produce Shakespeare. Is that "special?" Perhaps we should leave some room for _how_ those combinations happen and how efficient they are.
> Is current human information access methods wrong
They are wrong. The largest search company is also the largest advertiser. I'm surprised that anyone either fails to apprehend this or pretends not to.
They all love green energy, but will they use that for their data centers in your backyard?
Rules for the and not for me !
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