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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ehhh I dunno... it's an undeniable success for a few.. and I'd wager that was the intent.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Some folks were dreaming of the Dark Enlightenment for some time, and along came the McGuffin they could use for this.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago

if only AI companies optimized their AI to run on less compute (in the data centers)

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