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ThePatientAnarchist I'm not sure it has legitimate uses at this stage, yet if such exists they are nullified out of the gate when you don't have the sustainable power and cooling
infrastructure in place for it first. If you have to start building new fossil / nuclear power plants to power it, and find water sources that don't exist short of desalinating sea water to cool it, then you shouldn't be getting the green light to start in the first place. It's foolish to not wait until you can do it without destroying everything, particularly when it was never an essential need to have it to begin with. But we have very short term thinkers in power right now, historically so (now exacerbated by also have severely intellect-deficient leaders who wear reality denial as a badge of honor and faux superiority). Have technology and science illiterate people as leaders is a terrible, species-dooming setup.
That's only taking into consideration its immediate, near-term
environmental dimension into consideration. We're still completely side-stepping the long-term existential threat concern previously expressed by people as intelligent as Stephen Hawking. It's also side-stepping the other near-term negative side effects like forecasted mass job loss (the effects of which will magnified by ever increasing global population going hand in hand with ever increasing desertification of the planet), rampant theft of creative output by humans, rampant misinformation generation, and the death of authenticity on social media sites when AI detectors think that user prose is AI generated (so then how do you trust that anyone actually wrote a poem themselves, or whatnot?) etc.
Never mind it is often erroneous, e.g., I recently asked Google
Search a question two different ways and got two contradictory answers from Google AI that I cannot opt out of, ahead of any search results (so which answer is true?). Even other search engines are embedding AI too, making it impossible to opt out of using AI for just doing web searches.
But anywhere the profit motive is deified, you can routinely expect to find the cart before the horse, as a matter of default policy, no matter how insane the implications of that are, with all manner of gaslighting to defend it by the profiteers trying to cash in as quickly as possible before a bubble bursts, any consequences to anyone or anything else be damned. That is our toxic culture, which is completely normalized to the point of being an entitlement by even the masses.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/experts-ai-bubble-warning
