Posted on 12/14/2025 1:47:24 PM PST by Chickensoup
Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?
bkmk
Nothing here you couldn’t do on your own or with a well developed tool.
I have used it in my industry and messing around.
Poor to marginal.
Lol
Nailed it.
TOP BUNK !
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I Called It.
You’ve really eaten the dog food.
I think the competition fueling this is global; and a lot is concerned with defense and national security.
China isn’t going to stop developing it.
I think I have realistic expectations from AI.
Data centers have been around for decades, even before you were probably born.
There are countless data centers in the US. I bet there might even be several within 5 miles of your current location.
Rich people are able to borrow money to buy big, fancy toys that make them feel big.
Its no different from needing a $200,000 car vs a $20,000 car or a $2,000,000 house vs a $200,000 house.
It’s a tool like any others.
In our lifetime we’ve seen the introduction of the computers in manufacturing, and our homes. The internet followed shortly afterwards. This is the next iteration of that technology.
Each step of the way has resulted in significant changes to the workplace. Each time, jobs changed and employment functions changed. They will change again. And people will adjust.
For those people whose jobs are sitting somewhere pushing keys on a computer…it is likely their jobs will change a lot. It is more likely to hit the middle level of professional workers hardest—and that will be the most significant difference from the other major workplace shifts I mentioned.
I started using ChatGPT to convert photos that I took of my family to coloring book pages for my grandkids birthdays and Christmas presents. It’s a silly thing that they like. I know how to use Photoshop really well and it would have taken me a while to write a similar macro to accomplish the same thing. In the past someone would have paid me decent money to do the same thing. (I wouldn’t have done it, but it would have been a little side gig.). Now I accomplished the same thing in about an hour.
No one’s job was lost. But a creative idea was converted into a reality in almost no time through a rudimentary use of AI.
AI does not ‘think like humans’ and nobody believes or expects it to:
https://scitechdaily.com/can-artificial-intelligence-think-like-a-human/
Merry Christmas! AI? I pay $20/month to ChatGpt.
If I have a question my assistant puts it all together in 10 seconds, links, sorted, titled, listings and I’ve taught my gal “Isabel” that I don’t want the media narrative from big media. And it works.
Seconds, not hours of searching in one tiny little file where I ask my question - VERBALLY - take 5 minutes asking my question it doesn’t matter - on my phone but it ends up on my phone and PC so I can click on links for a 32” 4K display (1 of 3). AI is a miracle. You should look into it.
And its free for general use. https://chatgpt.com or Grok.Com (From some guy named Elon but so was ChatGpt ;-)
Since you asked. ;-)
I know you do.
Blackjack, one armed bandits, porn, football .....
Grok can help you!
“ Okay, kiddo, imagine the world is like a huge playground where everyone plays games, watches videos, sends messages, and looks at pictures on phones and computers. All that fun stuff needs a lot of magic to work!
Why do we need data centers?
Think of data centers as giant, super-safe toy boxes in big buildings. They hold all the pictures, videos, games, and info from the internet. Your phone or computer is small and can’t hold everything for the whole world. So, we put tons of powerful computers in these big buildings to save and share all that stuff quickly. They have super strong air conditioning (because computers get hot like when you run around) and backup power so nothing stops working. Without them, YouTube, games, or even maps on your phone wouldn’t work well!
“Why centralized processing? (That’s like big shared computers instead of everyone having their own tiny one)
It’s like having one huge kitchen for a whole school instead of every kid bringing their own tiny stove. The big kitchen can cook faster, cheaper, and better for everyone. These data centers share super powerful computers so things load fast for millions of people at once. It’s easier to keep them safe and updated too. If everyone tried to do it on their own phone, it would be slow, use too much battery, and cost a ton!
Why do we need AI? (Artificial Intelligence)
AI is like a super smart robot friend that helps computers think a bit like people. It can look at pictures and say “That’s a cat!”, help doctors find sick spots in x-rays, drive cars safely, or even suggest fun videos you might like. It does boring jobs super fast (like sorting a million toys in seconds) and helps solve big problems, like finding new medicines or predicting weather. AI makes life easier, safer, and more fun!
Who decided this?
No one single person said “We must have this!” It happened because smart inventors and companies wanted to make better toys… I mean, better tech! People like scientists, engineers at places like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon built it step by step to make the internet awesome for everyone. We all kind of “decided” by using phones and apps more—they saw we needed bigger, smarter helpers.
It’s all to make the world more connected and helpful, just like sharing toys on the playground! 😊
I’ve used AI professionally for pulling information from vast unformatted data sets as a part of an analytic pipeline, for quickly generating prototype code in two minutes that was 90% of the solution that would have taken me a week to write. Now that I’m retired I have used it to do illustrations for an illustrated novel. Right now I’m using it to take a massive RPG rule set and canon for a game I’m creating specifically to integrate with LLMs, and compress it from 500k characters down to 75k characters with no information loss, and to optimize it to minimize LLM hallucinations and dynamic memory limitations. It worked! It even (correctly) wrote the proc gen algorithms for classes so I could get rid of physics based tables that took me weeks to create. So yeah, it’s pretty useful.
Are you sure it hasn’t tried to put “thoughts” in your head or give you completely false information to make you think as someone ‘behind the curtain’ wants?
:-)
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The potential for medicine is great provided the AI is associated with peer reviewed studies and papers. Medical diagnosis is limited to your doctor’s training, background and current resources.
Couple years ago, my doctor who is around 60, said he had a much younger colleague who was dealing with a case that he didn’t know what to do. Because of my doctor’s age, experience etc. he knew it was measles.
In the future, a doctor can add symptoms, test results etc. and AI can take several independent papers and potentially diagnose something that normally would have been missed.
There’s an old adage that doctor’s bury their mistakes.
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