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13 hours agoNo he’s right, AI news is out of date nearly as quickly as it’s written, I’ve never seen a faster moving piece of tech.
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This is set up to be a massive crash.
For who? Who is going to crash massively? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Are you are expecting these massively diversified trillion dollar companies to fail due to AI?
Yeah, and what they’ll do is invent sources from thin air
The sources are right there next to it? You click on them and it takes you to the source, could you maybe try it for 5 seconds and then get back to me before you just make stuff up? what are you, an AI?
or draw made up conclusions from real sources
This feels like I’m having a conversation with a boomer talking about wikipedia.
Yeah, it’s always best to check the original sources and not just believe everything you read on the internet, no different than clicking on results in google and getting a page full of misinformation which people are doing every minute of every hour of every day, and don’t even get me started on social media.
The fact that web searches are getting worse is biasing your ability to objectively evaluate AI searches
Web searches were getting worse long before AI came along, SEO spam has been a thing since forever, maybe we’re rose tinting our own glasses because Google was so much better than Dogpile and Altavista?
Ironically, the bot articles are being written by the AI that you’re defending
I know and I think the search engines should do something about them (however I suspect they won’t as it’ll make their results even worse somehow), if I want AI results I will use AI, I wish wikipedia had a health portal that was more personalised? like something to replace all the health websites like webmd/healthline/verywellhealth which now that I look at them closer appear to be slightly done up AI websites anyway, eg. just summarising research papers… so now that I think about it they might be next to go so long as ai is quoting sources which:
Unless I can cite the results of a search it’s useless to me
Gigabrain (already linked) and Perplexity does this:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-lemmy-ml-Q_mHphL3T.i2dA16PDKtAw
When using social it’s summarising reddit, when using Academic it uses academic sources:
You can also use AI for language learning:
To quote Mistral 7b:
A bubble in finance is when the price of an asset or security rises far above its true value due to speculation and hype, fueled by investors buying with the expectation of selling at a higher price. Prices rise based on market sentiment rather than fundamental value, creating a self-reinforcing cycle until enough investors realize the bubble’s unsustainability and sell, leading to a sharp decline in price and potential losses for those who bought during the bubble phase.
I’m certain there are plenty of companies that have latched onto AI and gotten a temporary stock price boost, Nvidia is doing extremely well based on its hardware being king for AI, out of this but I’m not sure where the dot com style bubble is?
In crypto it’s easy to point out, the whole thing is practically a bubble that never seems to pop, but where is the bubble in AI? Is it not a financial bubble you’re talking about but a hype one?
Maybe some AI companies will go broke (maybe openai? or claude? or mistral? maybe?) but we still have all the open source models so the tech will still be here, it ain’t going anywhere
https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending
Not only that but from all the examples I’ve given you, AI to me provides a ton of genuine value, it is valuable to me as a programmer, it does provide search results that I find useful, it does generate images that I think are useful, people are using it to make music videos that are popular (11 million views in a month):
The Drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXZoMocpM8
Songs: AI Took My Job https://suno.com/song/14572e0f-a446-4625-90ff-3676a790a886
It’s hard to say it’s a bubble when the value is clearly present, whether you can make a ton of money off that value is something else, but the value is definitely there
Do you actually trust the shit the AI feeds you?
About as much as I trust anything on the internet or reddit, if I’m not sure, I just search a bit more, there’s no limit to searching, I can search all day ^^
as someone who uses ai daily i’m not sure what could replace it, ecosia search results are sometimes ok (i haven’t used google in years) but a lot of the time the questions i ask have bot style “articles” with the exact same page layout anyway, so no use there or i don’t get my question answered
When I want real world opinions on a product or thing i used to pop site:reddit.com on the end but now i use https://thegigabrain.com/ as it does a far better job with searching and summarising the posts into useful information
then i use usually a 7b or 14b local llm using gpt4all, lately i use reasoner which has a built in javascript sandbox
https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute
basically you can watch ai fix any errors that it generates in real time and produce better coding results which helps me code and i have a home battery powered by solar so no grid usage there
finally i use https://chat.mistral.ai/chat when generating random ai images which i think are funny or interesting or i’m not at my pc
i’m probably 75% ecosia 25% ai but that 25% gets me answers and is invaluable, not to mention the answers are getting better every week as opposed to web searches which appear to be getting worse
12·10 days ago“There are currently no feasible renewable alternatives for making steel,” she said.
That’s pretty much it, once we have green steel off the ground there will be no excuse for this, in the mean time not much we can do
AFAIK it’s because there’s not that much money to be made with large scale solar in Australia, when like 3/4ths of the year the wholesale price of electricity is negative due to too much solar there’s not much incentive to build it, the money is in grid firming now (battery/hydro/wind/etc)
because muslims have a book with instructions from a being that lives in outer space that tells them that sexual deviancy is morally reprehensible and shouldn’t be encouraged or allowe
would love to see if there is something like this for Queensland
Just let people live how they want to live!! I don’t understand why it’s so complicated for Christian fundies to understand that.
What makes you think Christian fundies have ever been about “Just let people live how they want to live!!” which appears to be a 1970’s hippie inspired slogan?
Almost the complete opposite of what Christians and Jews and especially Muslims are about.
This is a bit of clickbait
Emissions from electricity — the biggest cause of emissions in our economy — have been dropping significantly as renewables replace the use of fossil fuels.
Transport has started coming down too. But that’s been offset by increases in other sectors.
These are the 2 biggest contributors to co2 with the easiest way to have the biggest impact: renewables for the home + hybrids/EV for transport
You also have to remember it was only 2-3 years ago that we had this:
I’d like to thank Labor for at least putting the energy transition on the map
sorry are you referring to snowy hydro as the one getting cancelled?
op was referring to https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/lnp-scraps-pioneer-burdekin-pumped-hydro/104550864
At this point every single infrastructure project will be over budget and late… literally all of them thanks to covids construction madness and increased cost of materials and inflation and low unemployment rate
There’s a lot more to it than just economies of scale, firstly Queensland has a huge rural population, as a percentage of population it’s the only state outside of Tasmania that has a bigger rural population than living in the city
https://www.qgso.qld.gov.au/issues/11951/qld-compared-other-jurisdictions-census-2021.pdf
Coal power and mining represent jobs for rural people because renewables largely don’t need anyone to maintain them or dig stuff up out the ground.
This means there has obviously been a laggard effect with rural jobs adding an extra dimension to our renewables push by making it a political issue, hence why we have been delayed in making world leading progress compared to a place like SA.
The friction of rural jobs and wanting to push for renewables resulted in Labors “Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan” https://www.energyandclimate.qld.gov.au/energy/energy-jobs-plan as a way to push renewables and get rural people jobs at the same time, the “Queensland super grid” as you can see goes quite far out into regional areas: https://www.hpw.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/49241/rez-roadmap-a3-poster.pdf
Despite this there are some downfalls with renewables and it impacts SA heavily, without grid firming you have far more volatile electricity prices
South Australia price spikes in Q3 2024
In addition to the NEM-wide volatility events discussed in the previous section, South Australia experienced more extended periods of price volatility resulting in a regional cap return of $77/MWh, well above other regions and contributing 49% of the total NEM cap return. These events were driven by a combination of factors including cold evenings, low wind conditions, and network outages limiting Heywood interconnector flows or constraining some generators in the region at times.
This seems like a constant SA experience compared to other states which is probably why your batteries made the most money arbitraging it:
While all regions experienced growth in energy arbitrage revenue, Victoria and South Australia stood out, with energy arbitrage revenue for Victorian batteries increasing by $13.9 million (+175%) and for South Australia by $18.0 million (+319% ).
QLD isn’t exactly sitting back doing nothing, we have a large amount of grid firming going in:
Proposal to develop a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project to supply up to 2,000 MW electricity for up to 24 hours (resulting in a storage capacity of 48,000 MWh)
Development of a pumped hydropower energy storage project in the Southern Queensland renewable energy zone with the capacity to generate up to 400 megawatts (MW) of continuous electricity for 10 hours per day, and a battery energy storage system with a capacity of 200 megawatt hours (MWh)
Pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES) and transmission project with a stored capacity of up to 750 megawatts for approximately 16 hours for a 24 hour period.
Converting the Mt Rawdon gold operation into a sustainable low cost, large scale pumped hydro power station
We’re a bit lucky in that thanks to SA we have been able to see that going all out on wind farms and solar isn’t a winner, you need grid firming batteries just as much as you need electricity generation.
I have to say it’s very odd that despite SA having constantly much higher price volatility and the need to smooth it with firming the Labor government dropped the battery rebate?
Industry stunned as SA Labor dumps home battery subsidy and solar switch program
Still very confused about that one, what better way to help people in SA pay less for power and assist the grid than with home batteries?
Despite all the headwinds and with the “economies of scale” we obviously have more solar installed than SA:
New South Wales and Queensland continue to lead the way in rooftop solar capacity and installations. New South Wales, with a capacity of 6.232 GW, holds the top spot, closely followed by Queensland with 6.082 GW. In terms of installations, Queensland leads the nation with a total of 1,015,589, while New South Wales follows closely with 963,524 units.
https://www.energycouncil.com.au/media/fydjqofh/australian-energy-council-solar-report-q12024.pdf
And of course I can’t help but boast:
Data from the Clean Energy Regulator shows Queensland has hit a huge milestone in 2023 – hitting one million rooftop solar installations since records began, beating out every other state in the country.
Stephanie Gray, from the Queensland Conservation Council, says that this is a testament to smart government rebates to drive down the price of the technology.
“Rooftop solar plays a very important role in Queensland’s energy mix now with an impressive 5.9 GW of installed capacity – that’s three and a half times the capacity of Queensland’s largest coal-fired power station,” she said.
“Solar in Australia is a success story that demonstrates the power that governments have to make clean technology more accessible to all.”
https://reneweconomy.com.au/sunshine-state-milestone-as-queenslanders-install-one-million-solar-rooftops/ https://www.queenslandconservation.org.au/qld_reaches_solar_milestone
I know it’s real easy and cool to be a doomer but we have been making progress, we just have to hope labor gets back in 2028 to keep making progress
blame the people, we definitely were
Queensland is looking to harness its power as the Sunshine State for something more than the skin cancer capital of the world.
Cutting emissions by 75 per cent by 2035 and a renewable energy target of 80 per cent by 2035 was enshrined in law on Thursday
the liberals got in and now we have to sit on our hands for 4 years
To be fair SA does around 2-3gw at peak and QLD does 8-10gw, so fair shake a bit more solar required for Queensland
12·1 month agoWhat exactly is there to defend or deflect, LLM’s are useful for some things and not for others, this is well known
28·2 months agoOk so I figured out how to block a user but blocking an instance:
Leads me to:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397
Which suggests there’s no way to do this :(
nah i’m trying to read less about america and i found if i block all the china/russia/palestinian left wing progressives/hacks/activists the fediverse becomes quite a nice place
hello how do i block a whole instance?
True, your original post made me think of:
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI - November 13, 2024 https://archive.md/kYe5n
But we just had Deepseek v3 come out
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hn8rcx/deepseek_has_released_exclusive_footage_of_their/
It’s doing incredibly well and was incredibly cheap to produce
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1hmxjbn/deepseek_is_better_than_4o_on_most_benchmarks_at/
China is catching up extremely quickly to the west
By 2026 we might have to recheck all those doomsday “AI is going to use all the energy in the world” articles
edit: I just realised I’m commenting on one of those “AI is going to use all the energy in the world” articles :|