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Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI
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And of course the second tragedy is that the AI is absolute dogshit. They're not powering an artificial general intelligence that could do useful things like help in running a modern global-scale Project Cybersyn. All this staggering amount of electricity wasted so that Github users don't need to search Stackoverflow, so that people can say "hey google set a 4 minute timer" in their kitchens instead of hitting a half-dozen buttons on their microwave, so that people can tell Alexa to play Despacito.
You don't need that for planning and in fact the People's Commissariat for Energetics' secret police would send you to super gulag for suggesting such a preposterous thing.
AGI is science fiction so of course not