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Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by AnotherGoodName on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:16PM (#39822374)
The jaquard loom and steam engine can't do those things either. A revolution occurs when a technology saves even a fraction of worldwide labor costs. That's all it needs to do to be literally revolutionary.
Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by krainboltgreene on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:20PM (#39822414)
Steam engines were literally created specifically to help with mining, this is so hilariously telling of people into this hype.
Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by pixl97 on Monday March 25, 2024 @07:49PM (#39822613)
And have you studied anything into modern mining yourself? Mines are starting to convert fleets into self driving trucks. Capabilities like image/video recognition that LLMs can do improve their identification and alert systems.

Modern AI is a whole lot more than just shitting out spam on the internet.

Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by peteradio on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:33PM (#39823406)
> Mines are starting to convert fleets into self driving trucks.

What mines?

Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by pixl97 on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:07PM (#39823601)
Canadian mine has a partial fleet

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/cote-gold-mine-automa...

Canadian oil sands operation using Autonomous haul trucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9w-mUoUsY

This mine in Arizona is in progress at this time.

https://im-mining.com/2023/09/15/freeport-says-bagdad-to-hav...

Rio Tinto says they have 130 autonomous units.

https://www.riotinto.com/en/mn/about/innovation/automation

Re:As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot r... by krainboltgreene on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:42AM (#39825112)
To be clear we're talking about less than 200 trucks by my count, most of which were built in 2013-2016, the Baghdad Arizona mine still hasn't deployed anything yet as far as I know (I asked people in that area). None of this has anything to do with code completion or image generation and LLMs don't even do anything semi-related to vision. That's entirely beyond the scope of how they're designed.

It is not surprising to me anymore the threads that get pulled to justify this insane hype, but what does shock me is that it's going on 8 months of the same very tired and thin arguments that get smaller and smaller in their claims the more questions you ask.