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That is a made up word that AI wants me to change, I won't do it.
Christmas vs AI
It’s that time of year again. Time to point out, yet again, that Christmas trees are toxic and Americans will use more electricity during the holiday season than entire countries use in a year.
But it’s different now. Christmas decorations have competition for the power that they use.
You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I’m telling you why...
AI is coming to town!
With data centers sprouting up like crab grass all across the globe, it stands to reason that it will be in direct opposition to the continued use of holiday lights.
When push comes to shove, it will be AI that gets preferential treatment.
There are currently 5,450 data centers in the U.S., more than any other country, with many more planned for the coming years.
As if AI in our lives isn’t bad enough, having to factor in the massive amount of water, electricity, and resources used by these centers, is just too much.
Say goodbye to Christmas lights, water, functioning power grid, and toxin free environments.
Try not to judge, but I just watched the latest Mission Impossible movie.
I noticed a couple of things:
Tom Cruise, at 63, is getting perilously close to his sell-by date as an action hero.
The movie’s premise is that the only way to save the day is to destroy the evil AI that wants to take over the world.
Which is a good idea right up to the end where the source code is entrusted to the hero to safeguard, because he is a good person. We all know how that will turn out.
If they had left it at destroying the AI, that would have been a much better choice.
Fears of AI becoming sentient are misplaced. It won’t really matter if it does, what will matter is the intentions of the people who control it, and those intentions are well known.
I didn’t notice the usual display of patriotic pablum that accompanies Pearl Harbor Day this year. Since every day in this era is a day that will live in infamy, perhaps they’ve just given up on trying to inspire patriotism in the unwashed masses.
When the electrical grids fail due to overloading, and the cooling water runs dry in a lot of places, what will the tech billionaires do then? It's coming. Then there is the semi-conductor chip war going on with China. Once they perfect their cheaper chips, it'll be game over for the Americans, Then what? AI in the U.S. is doomed, they're just afraid to admit it.
You are in good company, Michael.
In Mark Twain's autobiography we read:
"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."