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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

In 1897, they built the first music synthesizer. It worked, but it took up the basement of an entire city-block sized building, so it was essentially useless. After a few decades of development, it could fit in a suitcase, and be carried around.

As per the 1890s, it probably also had to be lubricated with orphaned child blood.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

Don't give the AI MAGAs any ideas.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

And back then nobody asked why do we need a mountain sized synthesizer if the children itself make already all the funny noises.