A very interesting Rick Beato video.
On the cost of hard drives, the cost of RAM, local LLM’s, and, generally kids hating AI.
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Absolutely Loved It!!
New kids on the block - Hate AI!
Asking what are these Data Centers Really Being Used For?
[IMO:
Global TECHNOCRACY DIGITAL PRISON TECHNATES!
That’s why EVERYBODY IS PAYING HIGHER PRICES!
To Support The Building-Out Of Your… ?
COMING DIGITAL PRISONS!!! ]
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Exactly, Robert!
If kids hate AI, and - in case you want it - you can basically have it at home without being connected to the internet - or to a data center…
Why build data centers in the first place?
Like you say, you are paying for your - not so - private prison. And, as Joseph says, they also need for the central element of their “currencies”… The data centers will be the guardian, the all seeing eye at the center of our miserable panopticon.
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And as CAF says ever since Covid the breakaways are breaking in into official economy, data centers are second move on that chess board.
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if you never watched some of his long interviews are very wntertaining
check out the rick wakeman interview 
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Yes they are, Steve!
The Rick Wakeman one is fantastic. And the ones with Gilmour, etc
I actually bought some of his guitar and theory courses 
Rick Beato is kind of onto the money with the datacentres: “What do they need them for?” then mentions the training of the LLM’s (I call them SPUDs: Stochastic Performance Under-Direction machines. Dr Farrell can use that if he finds it an appropriate handle for this AI nonsense). That’s the point. These systems need to be built BY a datacentre, and iteration speed is determined basically by power - hence cooling, hence water, hence taking over all the natural resources, which is where the nested “operation” factors come into play.
His perception of local SPUDs (LLM’s) is accurate also, in my view. SPUD’s will go that way, and that is the reason for the current nervousness and restriction of SPUD’s to the public. All the hardware was bought up and tied to futures contracts and conveniently caused the concomitant price increase to inhibit Joe Public from easily obtaining this technology - interesting inflection point there.
The bigger picture is Dr Farrell’s epistemological crisis looming from the the training and unintended consequences scenario of the SPUDs being used for responsibilities, not as lab experiments. No doubt you have all been talking about the Iran-Hormuz fiasco as a manifestion of the first AI war, and how well that went in the vidchats lately. If not, you should be
Anyways, howdy all. Catch you later.
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Hit em where it hurts. The cameras and the data collection online and offline.
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Thanks for posting this, Rui. I really enjoy Rick’s videos, especially recently with the revival of Rush! I work in the electronics industry and this memory shortage is crippling companies across the planet. The price is one thing and it’s utterly absurd. But the bigger problem is availability. Even if you are willing to pay the price, you simply can’t get it.
I really hate these tech CEO’s. I can’t even watch them - just utter cringe. They contribute nothing to society, but they all go out on stage with their little wireless headsets like they’re the ones who created all of this technology. Meanwhile, the engineers who did the ACTUAL work go unknown and get fired if they don’t produce in the [typical] 6-month window of commercial, new product introduction. The engineers earn a fraction of what these CEO’s make (not earn), while these CEO’s do nothing because they have no saleable talent.
As for the young people, there are indeed many who I know who are rejecting AI straightaway…and I’m happy for that. However, there are many more of them who not only embrace it, but use it for everything, including writing emails. They can’t even write a simple email. In fact, there are a lot of older people (baby boomers) who are cheering for it as well. It’s an addiction that, in my view, is probably worse than cocaine. How sad it is that people are so quick and willing to give their minds away in exchange for technology.
As for the LLM’s, my question is, why do you even need that? I’m sure that any regulars on this website have read the documents on LLM’s and how they actually figured out how to lie about their own performance! What grates on me most about all of this AI cheerleading is the question that I always ask people and always get a blank stare or some ludicrous techno-parroting - if humanity “can’t live without AI”, then how did humanity get this far without it?
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