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Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap (themarkup.org)
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In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I tend to do a bench test on my Laptop to heat myself up. It's really neat!

No, I don't have a gaming rig. It's not going above 65W, and I actually have an ideological reason I want to switch to solar power too.

Soon, my local AI's will be solar powered as well, and offline.

Sadly, so far I have the capability to only charge my Tablet and phone, which are actually decent for AI in their own right.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Better than a benchmark, you should try Boinc or Folding@Home.

Heating by science.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

There was this citizen science project where few tried to manually fold proteins. Unfortunately, the computer was better than us at it, and we didn't contribute much. I sucked. However, I contributed my PC resources for a rather short while to some random cancer research project. I don't remember the details, I figured it was a better use of idle computer time than mining bitcoins.

Boy was I wrong.