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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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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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    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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      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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          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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        I mean you could have the AI make interesting scenarios for them!

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        this is the matrix

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          woosh

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          NO, this is Patrick

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

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        That’s just energy conversion. Loss is expected.

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

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