Technology

Power consumption before and after AI searches is the same as power consumption for monetary transactions before and after Bitcoin and the likes.

Both technologies suck donkey balls and still haven't done remotely what they've promised and have made everything net worse.

Yeah. I work for a company that builds the electrical systems for cooling Amazon's AWS servers in data centers and we are trying to keep up with orders as best we can. They just want more more more, so much that we're storing them in another warehouse because we don't have the room here.

They're projecting orders all the way into 2035 currently.

I would say we need to adopt more nuclear power but cooling is a massive concern too. For both the power plants and the data centers. Water is often used and idk how much pollution we're increasing.

Wow, thank you for the insight. I guess this would be helped somewhat with some of the lighter models being designed, and used locally.

No, we must move fast and break things, then ask for forgiveness later on.

The first thing I do with any new device I buy is run porn on it lol. It's the initiation ceremony for my gadgets

That's something I think AI could do really good for education. "I've been learning combinatorial theory - these are my notes - where would I look to understand how that relates to the Standard Model?"

one of my top 3 books. This doesn't add to your comment but I find it interesting: An important part of the story is that the Primer was originally intended to train a billionaire's granddaughter to become a powerful CEO. One equity-lord's attempt to hoard knowledge that backfires is what catalyzes the story.

Interestingly the AI stories are voiced by real people, ractors. That would now be one of the first things cut, see James Earl Jones

I'd say given the current tech environment that book would "educate" based more on a Brave New World caste and less on ideal knowledge to raise someone up but to keep them in a certain assigned position.

Sounds like an interesting book

Thank you for sharing!

Ain't nobody got time to read. Send an AI generated summary.

The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson

sounds interesting. Noted

Here's a way around the paywall: https://archive.md/ZDs6S

But the article doesn't really make it clear how much AI is involved in the textbooks, just that "Digital textbooks that make use of artificial intelligence are being adopted throughout South Korea.", emphasis mine.

Other text from the article, relevant to your question:

South Korea, the 2025 APEC chair, held the group's first education ministers' meeting in nine years, the theme of which was innovation in digital education. Education ministers from 21 countries and regions participated.
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Private companies and government-affiliated organizations set up booths at the APEC venue to promote their efforts. They exhibited software in which generative AI writes student evaluations on behalf of teachers or assigns homework and applied problems tailored to each child's level of understanding.

The road to implementation was not a smooth one.

The government's original goal was the world's first rollout of AI digital textbooks to all schools nationwide. But teachers worried about the burden that making full use of the technology would place on them, while parents questioned whether the textbooks would actually improve student performance and whether they could lead to digital dependency.

After heated debate, lawmakers made last-minute changes, including requiring continued use of paper textbooks for subjects such as Korean and home economics and delaying implementation for other subjects. The government also made plans to provide advanced training to more than 160,000 teachers as well as dispatch 1,200 digital tutors as support staff.

This is what I want to know also. "AI textbooks" is a great clickbait/ragebait term, but could mean a great variety of things.

And what exactly are AI textbooks?

A grift.

The picture shows OCR, which is AI. Maybe it's just that.