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AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-eating-up-pennsylvanias-power-governor-threatens-to-pull-state-from-the-grid-new-plants-arent-being-built-fast-enough-to-keep-up-with-demand

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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Please everyone, consider calling “AI” something more accurate – they’re not intelligent, though definitely ‘artificial’ as in man-made. I personally like the terms “stochastic parrot” or even just “LLM”.

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    • bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There is also the “Plagurized Information Synthesis System”

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      • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oooh, Iike that one.

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      AI existed before LLMs. People called NPCs and enemy character patterns “AI”.

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      AI has been a well established field of computer science for over 50 years. While LLMs are certainly a part of that field, it’s technically incorrect to conflate the two.

      Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others. “GenAI” is probably the most correct term to use to refer to the transformer-based deep neural networks that have become popular in the last several years.

      That said, language prescriptivism is rarely effective. So while I agree it’s incorrect to call LLMs “AI”, good luck getting laypeople to use the correct technical language from a field they mostly have very limited knowledge of.

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      • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just using “LLM” is also a bit over-specific, however, as it’d exclude text-to-image models, and others.

        Fair point. I haven’t heard of an equivalent to LLM for, as per your example, text-to-image models. Hmm.

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  • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine being able to use all that power for literally anything else like … oh I don’t know … manufacturing anything. You know, create jobs, jump start the economy. Oh who am I kidding with all these pipe dreams that make sense.

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