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11·1 month agoAccording to the International Energy Agency, the world’s data-crunching infrastructure is set to consume as much electricity by 2030 as the entire nation of Japan. Data centers also require enormous amounts of water for cooling—each day, a single 1-megawatt data center consumes as much water as about 1,000 people living in the developed world, World Economic Forum data suggests.
Also, goodbye stars, only datacenters and space junk now.
13·1 month agoThe U.S. Department of Defense quickly viewed biometric data and what it called “identity dominance” as the cornerstone of multiple counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies. Identity dominance means being able to keep track of people the military considers a potential threat regardless of aliases, and ultimately denying organizations the ability to use anonymity to hide their activities.
By 2004, thousands of U.S. military personnel had been trained to collect biometric data to support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. By 2007, U.S. forces were collecting biometric data primarily through mobile devices such as the Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT) and Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE). BAT includes a laptop, fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. HIIDE is a single small device that incorporates a fingerprint reader, iris scanner and camera. Users of these devices can collect iris and fingerprint scans and facial photos, and match them to entries in military databases and biometric watchlists.
Spectrum makes this seems a very positive way of “bringing power gaps”, but the social consequences of living nearby multiple engines running 24/7 are terrible. This video describes a "town that elon musk is poisoning "
More on this subject:
“We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning”
“We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It’s in Your Electric Bill”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted as much with a January post on his personal blog. Altman wrote he was “now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” adding that 2025 would be the year AI agents “materially change the output of companies.”
These guys are such a joke, but they are the ones laughing $.
Dr. Joseph Pierre, a psychiatrist at the University of California, previously told Futurism that this is a recipe for delusion.
“What I think is so fascinating about this is how willing people are to put their trust in these chatbots in a way that they probably, or arguably, wouldn’t with a human being,” Pierre said. “There’s something about these things — it has this sort of mythology that they’re reliable and better than talking to people. And I think that’s where part of the danger is: how much faith we put into these machines.”
I doubt it
And in 2029, a 340-meter asteroid called Apophis—after the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness—will pass within 32,000 km of Earth, which is closer than some geosynchronous satellites. This will happen on 13 April 2029—Friday the 13th, that is.
We’re cooked
[…] I read through dozens of the AI comments, and although they weren’t all brilliant, most of them seemed reasonable and genuine enough. They made a lot of good points, and I found myself nodding along more than once. As the Zurich researchers warn, without more robust detection tools, AI bots might “seamlessly blend into online communities”—that is, assuming they haven’t already.
Next they’ll be coming to get lemmy too
This used to be such an interesting site. I hate how they paywalled everything now, it doesn’t make sense
Yes, win-win scenario
with the idea of re-founding humanity
the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth
What they are doing is playing the old book of the nazis
If you have suggestions of other free and cool magazines let me know. I really liked Nature (news) site, but recently they’ve put everything under a paywall.
It’s very scary indeed, and add to that the “new” policy of “fuck the planet, let’s pollute” by one of the most polluting nations in the world.
I know, why? But looks cool though
That was always the plan