The best of ai LLM

[ElyDave]

Presumably the only reason that datacentres are evaporating water rather than using a closed-loop cooling method (ie. radiator and a big fan) is economics?  This would seem eminently fixable with regulation.

Big fin-fan coolers are often used in the gas industry post compression. The forced draft cooling tower, big fan, evaporate a small portion of the water is much more space efficient, and with the evaporative cooling likely to be a lot more energy efficient as well.

[quixoticgeek]

Of all the places to build a data centre, Phoenix would be somewhere close to the bottom of the list; it’s bastard hot, rarely rains and has a river with no water.  In it.  What’s wrong with Seattle, or Bergen?

Simply put? Proximity.

There's a view within the Industry that you need to have your content as close to the consumer as possible. Cos that extra 50-100ms is critical to keeping their custom... Putting a data centre in say Phoenix is pretty well positioned. Half way between the two major population concentrations of California and Texas.

Texas is trying to grow it's IT industry as it moves away from extracting dinosaurs from the ground, so it's also a popular location.

In Europe. Google has broken ground on a big DC in Norway. There was also an announcement, tho I can't find it now, for a DC in Norway that would consume 10% of the nations energy, and employ just 150 people...

J

[ElyDave]

yebbut Norway has one of the lowest grid factors going

[quixoticgeek]

Google is replacing web search with an AI search, at least for US users.

Which is providing dangerous, but also hilarious results.

So far I've seen:

- how to cook spaghetti in gasoline
- that it can be good to eat poison
- that we should all eat rocks.
- jumping off the golden gate bridge is a good idea
- mix non toxic glue into your pizza sauce to make the cheese stick better...


What's interesting is that it's possible in some cases to trace back what small shitpost caused the sparkling autocarrot system to hallucinate the answer it did. In the case of the later, it's an 11 year old post from a Reddit user called "fucksmith". The rocks one comes from the onion.

I'm just amazed the lawyers have let this system go live...

J

[ElyDave]

If you've seen how they make those adverts for pizza with really stretch, stringy cheese, this is exactly what they do. I stumbled across a documentary on how new food products come about and it included the marketing bollocks

[quixoticgeek]

Except they don't eat their pizzas...

J

[ravenbait]

One I just saw today is that male baldness is an evolutionary trait that came about because the sun shone so brightly off their bonces that it deterred predators.

There's nothing intelligent about AI.

Sam

[Kim]

This seems like a good time to mention https://udm14.com/

tl;dr: Appending &udm=14 to google search parameters enables the new 'web' mode, which gives you proper search results with no AI guff or contextual shitvertising like it did in the old days.  My theory is that this feature was added by rebel google engineers so they could still get work done.

(Even if you don't use Google, it's worth bearing in mind for when your Bing-powered alternative search engine stops working.)

[FifeingEejit]

I'm just amazed the lawyers have let this system go live...

Move fast and break things kill people.