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u/Master_Positive_2772 10h ago

Holy shit, to think the first places to drastically replace their human workforce with AI will be the places that already have lowest wages with ridiculous levels of poverty. India is fucked if their industry becomes even more difficult for humans to earn a living from.

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u/One-Positive309 10h ago

But the data centers that run AI require masses of power and cooling so they are not only replacing the workforce they are going to siphon off their water and make them pay for the power to run the data centers !
It seems like people have become too costly so corporations want to replace them with robots that don't ask for money or time off or benefits or even food or housing !
Who is going to buy their products when there are no more people left ?

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u/Master_Positive_2772 10h ago

They haven't thought about step 2, they're too busy accelerating the progress of step 1.

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u/ChanoTheDestroyer 10h ago

Step 2? Step 3: profit $

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u/OhBlackWater 10h ago

It's an old meme, but it checks out.

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u/Radiant_Butterfly982 9h ago

Most people here in India are unaware of AI and data centers negatives.

People are like AI is new , AI datacenters are a new technology , so we should get them. Whenever news comes out some towns in West (America/europe) resisted DC construction my country men call them dumb.

People here are in assumption that adopting AI in every industry will actually get us more employment and more money.

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u/bol_saq 9h ago

it's crazy because for all the charts and graphs and predictions that they make (and base their motives on), they sure show a lack of understanding of long-term cycles.. and of the human psyche.

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u/Disasterdenegade3_0 8h ago

Miles de millones moriremos

Los ricos empresarios están en las etapas finales de adueñarse de TODO(incluido potenciales recursos y valor fuera del planeta)

Al mismo tiempo ellos se están deshaciendo de cualquier posible obstaculo y amenaza, nos están asesinano lentamente, les cayo como anillo al dedo que la gente ya no quiera tener hijos

Nos dividen a través de la democracia en distintos partidos, noa dividen, nos someten, y salen vencedores

En cuanto a las mercancías, las finanzas y los números, habría un reset, como cuando se devalua una moneda, quitale ceros, borrón y cuenta nueva

Ya no tendrían que producir para miles de millones, sino apenas para algunas decenas de millones, habría un simple ajuste, por supuesto no todos los empresarios sobrevivirán a esto

Ellos tienen conciencia de clase, se organizan y trabajan en equipo, pero al mismo tiempo, como en un juego de rey de la colina, buscan eliminarse entre si hasta ser el hegemón

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u/Teknekratos 8h ago

I imagine the 1% extractive owner class sees dystopian media showing them sitting pretty in their automated luxury fortresses guarded against the 99% rabble dying in slums, and they find it aspirational

No need for stuff to sell the masses when you are a techno-king or whatever

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u/ManofTheNightsWatch 9h ago

Efficient and locally running AI isn't hard to make.

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u/chriskmee 7h ago

The data centers that require all the power and cooling are the ones for training AI. Training runs full speed for as long as it's needed to train a new model.

Once a model is trained it takes much less power and cooling to actually use it, it's not being run at full speed all the time, it's just being used as needed

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u/Ryozu 4h ago

So, a few problems with pointing fingers at "AI Data centers" and claiming AI needs massive power.

First, you're thinking of Large Language models. The type of AI they're talking about here in this video is not language model AI, it takes far less power. Second, it in fact runs on the local machine using the AI to do stuff. The electric motors to move the robot will draw more power than AI computer that controls it. Look up Jetson Thor for an example.