News Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank to invest $500 billion in 'Stargate' AI project

[Admin]

Stargate, a joint venture between Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank, will invest $500 billion in building AI infrastructure across the U.S.

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[bit_user]

Oh great. If AI hasn't already been pushing up chip prices and stalling node advancement of mass market CPUs & GPUs, this surely will!

Also, (no lie!) I read the following:

Altman noted that achieving artificial general intelligence domestically would not have been possible without the new administration's support.

As "... artificial general intelligence doomsday ..."

I thought: well, at least someone has a sense of humor. I credited Anton, not Altman, for that.

Not sure if I'd rather he actually said that. At least it'd give a sense of self awareness that's usually good when humans have it.
🙄

 

[Gururu]

I'm beginning to think that it really is ok if androids take over the world.

 

[bit_user]

Also, if they're hoping to recoup some of that massive investment by selling services to people and businesses outside the US, those customers will need to trust that they're not going to wake up some day to find that they've been cut off, due to a trade war (or some other reason), between their country and the USA. Trust is a hard thing to regain, once lost.

And if they're not going to export these services, then it means they're probably looking to make at least ~$2k per capita on the backs of US business & consumer. That's a big bet and potentially a heavy burden. For instance, like this?

https://www.tomshardware.com/softwa...copilot-existing-customers-safe-until-renewal
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[Findecanor]

No mention of how much CO₂ this is going to spew into the atmosphere.

Are these data centres supposed to replace human workers once they have died of starvation , after climate change has wrecked food production across the world?
That's the only thing in this story that would make sense.