Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide : fuck

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

AI IS THE FUTURE, just don't look down

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't look up either!

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Don't look to the right either. There's nothing there one can afford.

[+] termaxima@jlai.lu 51 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

there are good applications in medicine and research for larger models.

also local, running on their own servers.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Large-scale AI or specifically LLMs?

All that has been around for a long time now, there is no "medical AI boom" that would explain the need for new DCs.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pattern recognition for assisting with diagnosis, treated similarly to lab work and other techniques that still require a human to verify. Also for developing new medicines and treatments, all with human confirmation but as a tool to help identify what to focus on.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

LLMs don’t really do any of that though, those are different kinds of models.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that is why I didn't say they would be using LLMs.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

But LLMs are pretty much the topic of discussion here, especially when referring to MS and their data centers. So when people say large models you just kinda have to assume… especially when you didn’t mention any other models

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

LLM stands for large language models

its what i imagine the op i was responding to means when he said "huge models", and what i meant with my response.

"AI" is indeed a loaded term.

[–] bipedalsheep@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

We've all had our fun now with watching companies and investors throwing billions on these LLMs but after all that we have something which does not solve billion dollar problems.. They've already scrubbed all the data out there and let's be frank here, the LLMs still suck. It feels like chatting with these LLMs is like overcoming an obstacle, I end up doing web searches myself most of the time anyway. These LLMs can't think or reason, let's stop trying to fake it and start using these models for something useful. Medical is the obvious one. Surveillance and military will probably be where the shift will be to primarily. There will be interesting things with pattern recognition for sound and images, but that's about it.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I'm about to resign from a company where the CEO is still saying "We need to utilize AI more to achieve our goals".

We don't. We need to figure out how to do basic budgeting and accounting.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Beautiful. I’ve read this article 4 times already. The smile hasn’t left my face.

Fuck AI