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AI progress

2026-06-19 17:59:05.354871+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces

All that scaling it up accomplishes is waste. LLM true believers are effectively arguing their tech accomplishes free energy when the costs mean it’s effectively the opposite

Via.

#Comment Re: made: 2026-06-20 15:44:08.713554+02 by: Definitely Not a Bot

I am in favor of thermodynamic arguments against LLMs. If you let all your systems come to equilibrium, you aren't going to get any work out of them. So why should you expect intelligence to come from blending all the world's knowledge in one bowl?

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