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So AI could be more sustainable this whole time? Interesting…
Who wants to bet their AI will be used for more useful things too?
AI, as in machine learning, has always had uses. Like, real useful additions to human capability. It’s very useful in pattern recognition and statistical analysis of various things.
Our more modern shit connotation comes from capitalists trying replace labor with generative AI, which is a small subset of potential machine learning uses, but by its nature sends massive amounts of shlock at us.
ML has made our xsh translations coherent.
Having dealt with ML engineers in depth before, American tech companies tend to throw blank checks their way which, combined with them not tending to have backgrounds in optimization or infrastructure, means they spin up 8 billion GPU instances in the cloud and use 10% of them ever because engineers are lazy.
They could, without any exaggeration, reduce their energy consumption by a factor of ten with about two weeks of honest engineering work. Yes this bothers the fuck out of me.
That's my biggest gripe with mainstream closed source AI, they can optimize some of their most powerful MLAs to run on a potato but... they don't. And they'll never open source becaue it'd be forked by people who are genuinely passionate about improvement.
AKA they'd be run outta business in no time.
Who wants to bet their AI will be used for more useful things too?
Unlike in the West where if Nvidia tanks then the entire US economy goes down with it.
Is it actually “sustainable” though? I’d like to see some wattage numbers.
I said this in the other thread but I’ll say it again: our sophisticated artificial intelligence, their planet burning chatbot.
Idk about sustainability. It still requires massive computing infrastructure, which for now requires unsustainable ways of sourcing metals
Man, at this rate, China is going to somehow create a cryptocurrency or NFT that actually works and isn't a scam.
BRICScoin when
Well they are looking to create an alternative currency to USD for global trade.
An incredible outcome would be if the US stock market bubble pops because Chinese developed open-source AI that can run locally on your phone end up being about as good as Silicon Valley's stuff.
I think the bubble might not pop so easily. Even if Microsoft is set back dramatically by this, investors have nowhere else to go. The whole industry is in a turmoil, and since there's nothing else to invest into, stocks stay high.
At least that's how i explain the ludicrously high stock rates that we're seeing in the recent years.
Llms that run locally are already a thing, and I wager that one of those smaller models can do 99% of anything anyone would want.
I've been messing around with deepseek, and I can already tell it's much smoother and more coherent than chatgpt or gemini.
It also doesn't have the limiters of the American LLMs, where they accidentally generate a true statement about history or politics that doesn't show the US in a good light, and then have to stop and argue themselves back into the neoliberal / US state department position.
Deepseek made a mistake with the first query I asked it, so from that sample of 1 I'm treating it with the same caution as any of the current LLMs.
I asked it about testing an electronics part (an Integrated Circuit chip) and it confidently told me how to test an imaginary 16-pin version of the chip.
The IC in question has 8 pins.
When I followed up by asking "why pin 16" it confidently responded with a little lecture about what pin 16 does and just how important pin 16 is.
Once I'd proved to it that the IC has 8 pins, I got this:
"You're absolutely correct that the MN3101 is an 8-pin DIP (Dual Inline Package) chip. My earlier reference to pin 16 was incorrect, and I appreciate your clarification. Let me provide accurate information for the MN3101 (8-pin DIP)."
The thing is that these chips have a unique Id (the name) and publicly available datasheets that explain, amongst other things, how many pins they have.
This is about to make me go
AI 
AI, China 
china is reaching levels of basedness long thought impossible
AI garbage
AI garbage, ChinaWhy is it based when China does it? It's still bazinga until I hear otherwise, glad they're owning the Yanks tho
It may eventually be useful and because they're destroying OpenAI and all the other bullshit it's worth it anyway
The US Govt. is pumping billions into this shit industry. It will be so funny when it bursts
I know this shit keeping em awake because mandem talking about 500 billion investment while they're ringing the alarm on an open source AI 
^___^
Space race all over again
China's beating the US at the actual second space race too
proof? I'm not a skeptic, just a lore enthusiast.
Their space station is seriously impressive, and that's just one piece of their space program.
They have a microwave oven on the Tiangong, which is a luxury (in space). On the ISS they use a heating pad to warm their food, because the station doesn't have enough wattage for a microwave. 
Lmao they don't have batteries on the ISS?
No Prime shipping. 🫤
Edit (serious): Maybe they have enough capacitors, but not enough amps(?) to go around? Like, not enough solar panels.
IDK I'm bad at electricity and magnetism.
To add: They have an actual plan on manned landings on the moon within the next 5 years (possibly within 3).
And its really funny to see all "Successes" down the list of these while SpaceSux has a worse record then the average Kerbal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
China has its own space station, and it's newer and more advanced than the ISS.
The last time the US had an operational space station all of its own was 1979.
Edit: I see nasezero had already mentioned it, heh.
Edit2: Fuuuuuu---I'm about to start up Kerbal Space Program now.
The last time NASA brought samples back from the moon was 1972, China just brought their second batch back last year.
China is cratering the cost of Moon rocks. But at what cost?
Also, China's moon rocks are extra special because they're from the far side, where NASA never brought any rocks from
There are good reasons to think that China will get humans back on the moon before the US despite the claimed agenda of NASA.
The low budget of NASA, the insistence of the US state to use recycled space shuttle techs and factories and the insistence on having private corporations handle critical part of the moon missions, namely the moon lander(s); have put the project in a situation in which the constant shifts from the private contractors and politicians and the general mess that is the project makes NASA unable to come up with an actual, precise plan about how exactly they're actually going to land peoples on the moon in practice, but at the same time they are under pressure from the state and private contractors to present something so they keep giving broad hand-wavy "plans" to pretend they know what they are doing.
Space race but instead of human achievement it's who can generate the most slop possible.
And China is winning with only one hand. The other is building high speed rail 
"B-but the tech sanctions were supposed to protect our treat machine scam?! I don't understand!"
mashallah xi ai can continue to lead china prosperously long after xi is gone
computer, write me a happy song that references China having many sputnik moments and scaring the shit out of western chauvinists
I downloaded DeepSeekv3 yesterday but I dunno how to actually run it. I gotta see wtf to do this weekend and see what all the fuss is about.
With ollama and openwebui you can get a pretty featured experience.