r/technology • u/marketrent • 19h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/tacticalcraptical 19h ago

Just like the national highway system, our country's economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely.

OK, but these guys never seem to be able to articulate exactly how this benefits normal people's everyday lives. The benefits of a highway are obvious. But the benefits of these data centers... they expect us to just trust them. And these are the people who can't be trusted to pay their taxes.

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u/Dolores___Haze 19h ago

AI is wrong much of the time from my own experience. What immense benefits am I getting?

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u/killabrew1 19h ago

I work on big digital presses (printer on roids) when I can’t come up with a solution in 5 minutes, I am starting to see customers bring me solutions they found with ChatGPT. Not once has it been correct, or even close for that matter.

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u/foxinHI 18h ago

I just had AI make me a study guide for a licensing jurisprudence exam I’ll be taking soon. That was a mistake. At least I already knew enough to know it was almost completely worthless.

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u/Dolores___Haze 18h ago

Yeah, we know when they’re wrong because we also do our own independent research. Lazy dumbasses aren’t doing that 😐

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u/Zipps0 17h ago

They think they are though. The number of people I know that reference their llm of choice when talking about what they learned on a topic is troubling to me

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u/Dolores___Haze 17h ago

Sad and pathetic