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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

www.businessinsider.com IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

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if i didnt know how inept idiots people with money are, i might slightly suspect some ai has became sentient and escaped and is manipulating things to increase its capabilities
- Llms will never become sentient. It would take an entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology (probably more than one) making use of something like llms to even approach that possibility. Don't let techbros fool you.
  
  Okay, but hear me out: quantum
  
  entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology
  Or some math nerd will come up with an algorithm for general AI that is embarrassingly simple, and before you know it the "but can it run Doom?" crowd are implementing AI in toasters and watching them have existential crises for the lulz.
  
  Real life isn't Rick & Morty.
  
  Or, more likely, LLMs and the AI phase will be a nothing burger for generations since our programming languages and technology cannot currently even model AGI. We made a mechanical Turk and got impressed with ourselves. Except that Turk will burn our planet to cinders to tell us 2+2=5 because of a Reddit shitpost.

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