Why would anyone want this?
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push
(www.theguardian.com)
Because many people keep posting pictures, putting their real name and sharing personal info on facebook ("I'm a married male that works in Architecture. I studied at Michigan University and live in Ann Arbor"). This shit basically makes Zuck richer because he can sell more accurate data to companies.
Because many dumb US States are kissing his ass to get data centers that will use water, electricity, generate pollution and create little to/no jobs. Dumb politicians think they are getting a great deal.
This is the guy who wrote 'they trust me. Dumb fucks' in an email.
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a19746937/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ims-data/
Remember that time everyone was posting their 10 year transformations? Hello aging algorithm.
Zuck is at the point where he needs to invent new things to want.
zuckerborg would. hes an android that wants to control the minds of humans.
Datacenters with parallel compute cards? I expect they want to perform parallelized computation.
To stay relevant and also to get funding.
Everyone:
please stop.
I can't stop thinking about this piece from Gary Marcus I read a few days ago, How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI. It's a fascinating read on the differences of connectionist vs. symbolic AI and the merging of the two into neurosymbolic AI from someone who understands the topic.
I recommend giving the whole thing a read, but this little nugget at the end is what caught my attention,
Why was the industry so quick to rally around a connectionist-only approach and shut out naysayers? Why were the top companies in the space seemingly shy about their recent neurosymbolic successes?
Nobody knows for sure. But it may well be as simple as money. The message that we can simply scale our way to AGI is incredibly attractive to investors because it puts money as the central (and sufficient) force needed to advance.
AGI is still rather poorly defined, and taking cues from Ed Zitron (another favorite of mine), there will be a moving of goalposts. Scaling fast and hard to several gigglefucks of power and claiming you've achieved AGI is the next big maneuver. All of this largely just to treat AI as a blackhole for accountability; the super smart computer said we had to take your healthcare.
People used to make fun of me cause I made up a fake persona for Facebook, never allowed tagging, never allowed my picture on it.
Nobody, makes fun of me for this anymore.
Most of them are off Facebook as of last year, but their profiles, personal data are all still there.
As someone who has been in IT since 1994, I have a nearly zero presence on the internet, and I've had to work hard to keep it that way.
Same bro. Been there since the first modem. Only my company is still there, not a byte from me personally. And people always called me paranoid. Yeah sure...who's laughing now 😁
Although it gets harder and harder these days.
🙌
Soon they will realize they simply have to much money to spend constructively and will start sharing with the rest of us. Any day now.
Nah, they'll tell you to reduce your electricity consumption and carbon footprint while they fly their jets and power their AI centers.
The goal is to train our replacements so the rich will have replacement servants ready when their slaves start dying off.
Still pushing those silly ray ban spy glasses I see.
Can you imagine talking to someone with two cameras pointing at you, at all times? Fucking annoying. I’d punch them.
google tried that already like 10years ago, it was so silly on someone.
The only person I have seen use them was a like 6 year old girl at a restaurant who was running around from table to table, running up to people and saying "ok meta, who/what is this?"
Then squealing at the answer while ignoring all people asking her to stop.
I hated that kid and I really hated those glasses.
And who will pay for this absurdity? Someone has to provide the power, the water, the air quality, the land degradation etc. This is all for pursuing a dead end technology that actually isn’t intelligent and given how it works, won’t be. A waste of effort to shore up share prices.
Remember that donation he made to a certain inaugural fund? That means the people will.
Between this and the other NOAA headline, I feel like we'll soon live in the Rainworld universe.
Rimworld*
No, that is also a good game, but I meant rainworld.
Woody Allen is making another project related to Manhattan?
Fucking stop lmao
And meanwhile people are starving.
Hi, can he not?
They barely power the ones they have now with the insane energy requirement for something that spouts bullshit facts 70% of the time. Does he have a cold fusion reactor hidden up his ass or something?
zuckerborg power source would a fusion core. hes like a dalek absorbing the entire internet
Just… no.
ITOps is going to wonder around drunk and piss on a rack.
Why not build vertically instead?
Why don’t people block all Meta properties at the network level via IP addresses and/or DNS? Where do you think the funds to pay for this come from?
So, remember matrix 3?
"The footprint of Manhattan" not the physical size. Not that this wouldn't be tremendously titanic too, but at least not gargantuan. That's how you make clicky-baity-newsy...
Besides...he "wants to..." I want many things too.
What's the difference?
I guess they mean the footprint in power-consumption.
*Wants to