Stargate is a new $500 billion initiative that will build new AI infrastructure. While this will bring job growth in the short-term, what will the real costs be down the road?
in twenty or so years we might see some basic AI, next five years will be lots of research, where will the brains be, what is an everyday focus verses military purpose. How about flaws? logic flaws, equipment flaws, who will build it? China, India, and are they friends or enemies. what about quality control issues, privacy issues, public wants and who is going to say nope. upgrades. backdoors to shut it down. what happens should one community want it another community not want it. Oh what fun (sarcasm). My previous experience is that government is hard to adapt quickly and efficiently and will screw it up. Private companies will choose the best and the brightest to build it but are unable to truly see unintended consequences.
Why are they building in Texas, between heat, potential fires, droughts it seems kind of dicey. You have to keep computers cool, that's not Texas. I moved here from the east personal experience here.
You raise some really good points. One thing I'm concerned about is the compliance of the "building class" -- the technologists who aren't pulling the strings, but the ones writing the code bringing AI to life. The prestige and the paycheck that comes with working for certain companies seems to be put above ethics and morality. If these are the people building AI, what does that say about the morals and ethics of future AI?
There are so many unknowns at this point. The fact that we continue to build without regard to the unknowns is alarming at best.
in twenty or so years we might see some basic AI, next five years will be lots of research, where will the brains be, what is an everyday focus verses military purpose. How about flaws? logic flaws, equipment flaws, who will build it? China, India, and are they friends or enemies. what about quality control issues, privacy issues, public wants and who is going to say nope. upgrades. backdoors to shut it down. what happens should one community want it another community not want it. Oh what fun (sarcasm). My previous experience is that government is hard to adapt quickly and efficiently and will screw it up. Private companies will choose the best and the brightest to build it but are unable to truly see unintended consequences.
Why are they building in Texas, between heat, potential fires, droughts it seems kind of dicey. You have to keep computers cool, that's not Texas. I moved here from the east personal experience here.
You raise some really good points. One thing I'm concerned about is the compliance of the "building class" -- the technologists who aren't pulling the strings, but the ones writing the code bringing AI to life. The prestige and the paycheck that comes with working for certain companies seems to be put above ethics and morality. If these are the people building AI, what does that say about the morals and ethics of future AI?
There are so many unknowns at this point. The fact that we continue to build without regard to the unknowns is alarming at best.