• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    20 hours ago

    it is really more useful than Katie from Sales getting skin cancer on a beach in Thailand or that…

    A large chunk of air transport is also freight. And business. And regular domestic travel for people going from A to B, travel that doesn’t include holidays for Kate or that drunk dude in Mallorca.

    And when you look at those uses, AI is still running a pretty distant second place.

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      15 hours ago

      8% of total global aviation emissions doesn’t put it in second place. It’s not even in the top 100. I don’t think it ever will be… Because building huge data centers takes years and by the time there’s enough data centers to make a huge dent, the previous AI data centers will have been used to make fusion power a reality.

      Today’s fusion reactor designs were all made thanks to AI. The kind running in big data centers.

      It takes a lot of computing power to simulate fusion reactor designs!

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        6 hours ago

        You mean the experimental reactors? Your comment implies that there are currently big data centers running fusion reactors to power them and that is just false.

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          4 hours ago

          I meant that the current reactor designs were made using AI running in big data centers with supercomputers/GPUs.