Subj : Re: AI is sucking up powe
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ron L.
Date : Sat Jan 04 2025 08:52:18

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Powell <=-

 AT> This makes sense. I'm just underwhelmed by what I've seen so far, like
 AT> the Google AI assistant. I'm sure that AI is being used in more
 AT> complicated scenarios.

We turned on Github's AI programming assistant for software development in my
company for a while.  It was worse than useless.  Only about a 10% success rate
- with the other 90% adding more work to remove what it put in my code.

But that's what it is today and it will probably get better.  We'll see.

AIs work best with a very constrained subject.  So an AI that is good at
playing chess will be awful at making stock trading decisions.

 AT> Maybe it can be improved in the future, to use less power.

Again, probably.  It's expensive to run an AI.  That will create a market
demand for something that uses less power.  Maybe a dedicated CPU design.

If the Elitists will stay out of the way, the market will either make it
happen, or prove that it cannot.


.... I still miss my ex-wife - but my aim is improving!
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