Skip to content

WeTransfer updates T&Cs, allows it to use your data to train AI

Technology
21 17 307
  • 14 Stimmen
    2 Beiträge
    2 Aufrufe
    tal@lemmy.todayT
    data centers and supercomputing facilities, which consume voracious amounts of electricity and water Memphis is on the Mississippi. Evaporating the volume of the Mississippi at Memphis with graphics cards would be a pretty impressive feat. kagis https://snoflo.org/flow/report/tennessee/ TENNESSEE FLOW REPORT August 22 2025 Streamflow levels across Tennessee are currently 92.0% of normal, with the Mississippi River At Memphis reporting the highest discharge in the state with 354000cfs 345,000 cubic feet of water per second is a pretty substantial amount of water. EDIT: Water has a heat of vaporization of 2.23 kJ/g. 345k ft³ water is 9.7×10⁹ cm³, so 9.7×10⁹g That's about 2.2×10¹⁰kJ to vaporize it (disregarding the specific heat of water, just the heat of vaporization). 1kJ ≈ 0.28 Wh. So 6,160,000,000 Wh to vaporize the water going through in a second. 3,600 seconds in an hour. So at a flow rate of 345k ft³ that'd sink about 22 trillion watts through vaporization alone. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee102/node/1925 In 2024, the world wide energy consumption was about 186,000 TWhs 8760 hours in a year. So global average power usage is about 21 TW. If we put the entire world's generated electricity towards heat to vaporize the Mississippi at Memphis, it'd still fall a bit short. EDIT2: I also inadvertently transposed two digits (should be 354,000 ft³/sec rather than 345,000 ft³/sec) in transcribing the initial flow rate, so it'd fall slightly shorter.
  • 30 Stimmen
    3 Beiträge
    17 Aufrufe
    B
    Now all we have to do is decrease the fidelity of the actual world until it matches that of the AI's world model, and just like that you've got general purpose robots able to do everything that needs done.
  • 48 Stimmen
    1 Beiträge
    22 Aufrufe
    Niemand hat geantwortet
  • The effects of AI on firms and workers

    Technology technology
    4
    1
    13 Stimmen
    4 Beiträge
    55 Aufrufe
    brobot9000@lemmy.worldB
    Your response is: want to be more productive? Replace the CEO and pointless middle management with Ai! Image how much money the shareholders would save!
  • AI Pressure from the Top: CEOs Urge Workers to Adapt

    Technology technology
    1
    1
    1 Stimmen
    1 Beiträge
    19 Aufrufe
    Niemand hat geantwortet
  • Small (web) is beautiful

    Technology technology
    6
    1
    0 Stimmen
    6 Beiträge
    76 Aufrufe
    fredselfish@lemmy.worldF
    Will do thank you.
  • AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.

    Technology technology
    14
    2
    42 Stimmen
    14 Beiträge
    131 Aufrufe
    G
    So you are against having machines do the work of blue collar workers? We should all be out in the fields with plows instead of using a tractor and assembling everything by hand in factories?
  • The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists

    Technology technology
    3
    1
    108 Stimmen
    3 Beiträge
    43 Aufrufe
    dual_sport_dork@lemmy.worldD
    Especially when the poster does not disclose that it's AI. The perpetual Youtube rabbit hole occasionally lands on one of these for me when I leave it unsupervised, and usually you can tell from the "cover" art. But only if you're looking at it. Because if you just leave it going in the background eventually you start to realize, "Wow, this guy really tripped over the fine line between a groove and rut." Then you click on it and look: Curses! Foiled again. And golly gee, I'm sure glad Youtube took away the option to oughtright block channels. I'm sure that's a total coincidence. W/e. I'm a have-it-on-my-hard-drive kind of bird. Yt-dlp is your friend. Just use it to nab whatever it is you actually want and let your own media player decide how to shuffle and present it. This works great for big name commercial music as well, whereupon the record labels are inevitably dumb enough to post songs and albums in their entirety right there you Youtube. Who even needs piracy sites at that rate? Yoink!