Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?

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[Chickensoup]

Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?

[Elsie]

...and flood the night with light pollution.

They glow in the dark?!?

[Elsie]

...it will be firmware that will be updated twice a year.

Nightly.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for posting Da Coyote.

Because the leftists need a professional lying machine that appears to have plausibility now that they and their media slime mold butt-kissers no longer have any.

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MIT Report Finds 95% of Generative AI Pilots Fail to Deliver Financial Impact (8.18.25)

[BEJ]

I phone the pizza place down the street. I get routed to India, where they ask me what I want on my pizza. I tell them, and they say you can pick it up in 30 minutes. I say fine and ask who am I speaking to with that accent. They say they are Indian, and I say that can’t be possible because people on the Indian reserve don’t speak like that. They say India like New Delhi, India. Oh, and then I say I can’t get to India in 30 minutes to pick up my pizza. We both laugh and the world is fine.

[Jamestown1630]

I got a Dell one once who said, ‘Hello from tomorrow!’

[Organic Panic]

Infrastructure. AI centers need water for cooling and electricity for operating. They stay far away from loberal dumps that rely on “green” (solar or wind) power.

[Tunehead54]

“No one will ever need more than 640K of memory.”

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A quote from someone named Bill? ;-)

Don't ask him about vaccines but you can ask him about "climate change".

That's changed. ;-)

[Jamestown1630]

We managed fine without cars, refrigerators, computers and websites like Free Republic, too.

[rdcbn1]

The computers and memory used for AI must be physically close to the operations due to connectivity and data transfer requirements

Many of the emerging AI applications are real time, competitive and adversarial so they need to located in secure locations with integrated operations

In the competitive AI space, things happen so fast that delay from transmitting data hundreds of miles is the difference between winning and losing

[Elsie]

Sounds quasi governmental to me.

Most everything has been for the last 400 or so years.

[Elsie]

Time is money.

My time is worth a wee bit less than my heart doctors.

[Elsie]

I think it will end up being misused.

just like everything else.

[one guy in new jersey]

To ask PDJT is probably to be told that “winning” the AI development race against China is as important as or more important than winning the race to the moon against the USSR in the 1960s.

[Elsie]

You cannot make one concrete example of AI usefulness.

I can - it beats the crap out of a Google® search!

[Elsie]

or: You are what you eat.

[Elsie]

No.

[Elsie]

As long as I can command the pod bays doors to open when I wish - I’ll be happy.

[Elsie]

PLASTICS!

[Jamestown1630]

I’d put it up there with beating the Germans to the atom bomb.

[Elsie]

One of the first things I asked AI to do was to write some code for a C-64.

It gave me what I wanted in about 5 seconds.