I’m not scared of nuclear power
but hearing it in the same sentence as ‘Microsoft AI’ sent a shiver down my spine
Like in Westworld, the Hoover Dam was allocated to power the AI. This is very dystopian on one level but on another level, the notion that so muchreal engineering is being used to feed a computer that generates incorrect bullshit is kinda comical.
There is something wrong with your tech if you need your own nuclear plant to run it.
I mean, it’s better than coal, but still.
I’m all right with it really because it doesn’t really matter. Radioactive material isn’t really dangerous at least in any sensible context and it doesn’t really put out a lot of carbon so if Microsoft want to restart nuclear power station then I don’t really have any objection.
As to whether they need to be doing this is another question, but the fact that they’re doing it at all doesn’t really bother me.
There’s always the outside possibility that they decide that the nuclear power station isn’t enough and end up building a Dyson Sphere or something.
I think it’s the responsible thing to do, sure, but I feel like there’s a problem of scalability with LLMs. That was more of my point.
It used to take a computer with a ton of ptocessors to beat the best human. Now your phone can do it. When your most common tasks can be done on a phone NPU, and fewer GPUs need to be in the cloud it will get more efficient
Nuclear Power is NOT green energy! Anyone who believes that bullshit is brainwashed…
So… now nuclear is considered “green power”. Okay boomers.
Nuclear is definitely more green than fossil fuels.
Even with the radioactive waste material, in 20 years that will just be more fuel for fission reactors. Even taking into account the deaths from atomic bombs, the death rate from nuclear materials is a factor of a few hundred lower than coal power.
