General Discussion

Until they are "done" developing them.

They also don't know, and at the bottom of all of it is they don't really understand how they work anyway and from what I can tell, there is no way to understand them because of the way they work.

So they are just assuming some linear or predictable increase in utility when there is none.

But they keep shoveling resources at them and people are funding it out of planned ignorance because they will never know the truth.

Until it is known that they don't work and have no actual intelligence just regurgitation of what they have been trained with.

You can't even power these data centers in some cases for years because of that physics thing where you need to generate power and deliver it.

Which collides with the capitalism thing, where they believe there is enough money to be made and nobody is thinking about the power requirements dropping by orders of magnitude in the future, either from technology improvements or from a lack of need.

Deepseek made better software to do AI at a fraction of the CPU power of other models, that scared the industry, but they just continued the poor man's optimization which is to bury your software in faster and faster hardware rather than optimizing your software.

What happens to local ratepayers when they have no income from that 50GW nuclear power plant they spent billions to spin up because of data centers.... I'm sure it will just mean power costs drop to almost zero because of lack of demand.... no, they still need to pay for the infrastructure they built so guess who gets the bill.

I see a large pin on the horizon ready to burst this bubble and the next Great Depression...