Anyone got a good list of Israeli companies? I mostly assumed I didn't buy anything Israeli because they're a small country far away from me. Intel and PrivateInternetAccess are the only two I know of (and the latter it took me way too long to realize is Israeli).
The idea I'm thinking of is some kind of fliphone combined with a separate device for everything else. I haven't looked too much into it so I can't guarantee it's a good idea, and after like 2 minutes of searching I couldn't find a flipphone that supported hotspotting.
I just got GrapheneOS, and while it's good I really hate the jumpscare that is the Google logo every time I reboot (since it's exclusive to Google Pixels).
Russia's been bombing Ukrainian schools and hospitals, if Russia does retaliate I don't think a drone attack on war planes is sufficient to call it "provoked".
I answered with a question because your question was absurd.
I support the fight for self-determiniation in Palestine, Hawaii, US territories, Punjab, Taiwan, Ukraine, Somaliland, Kurdistan, and Kosovo. I'd probably support a bunch more fights if I'd have heard of them.
I don't support, and in no universe will I ever support, Russia's war of aggression in order to exert control over Ukraine.
Yes, it is a lot. But again not apocalyptic. And it's noteworthy how the article tries to frame it hyperbolically as "22% of US household consumption".
This article is dubious. When it comes to training it uses a lot of sensationalist and unsupported estimates. Notice the following quote:
OpenAI and President Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, which aims to spend $500 billion—more than the Apollo space program—to build as many as 10 data centers (each of which could require five gigawatts, more than the total power demand from the state of New Hampshire).
I am DEEPLY sceptical of those figures. Like, what data center uses FIVE BLOODY GIGAWATTS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FIVE GIGAWATTS IS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT'D COST.
The use of metaphor is also concerning, comparing it to San Francisco or New Hampshire or household electricity consumption.
America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says "22% of household consumption in 2028", which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption. A lot, but not apocalyptic and merely a projection for future power consumption. It's also less than the 50GW to 10 data centers alone in the line I quoted above.
It’s right in that the core problem is that we don’t know and so I can’t fault it for assuming the worst, but even then there are limits.
As for the usage, the document you linked puts generating an image using stable diffusion at 400W seconds, or as much as my computer consumes at idle for 8 seconds. I'm gonna stop reading this article because I'm tired and this isn't worth it.
I'm not pro-AI. I don't like how it makes it so easy to fill the internet with slop. I don't like how it discourages the people who use it from any and all critical thought. I've used AI twice, to reword by assignment questions in college because no amount of googling made the phrasing make sense. All I want is for the fearmongering about AI power consumption to stop, not just because it's inaccurate, but also because it encourages investment into gas-fired power generation to "prepare for the AI boom".