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Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources (www.pcmag.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“The clouds covered the sky, and the sun was choked off permanently. Solar power was but a memory, and an advanced society had depleted most other fuel sources. Surely now the machines would surrender.”

“Bio-electric, thermal, kinetic. All could be harnessed. Everything about the human body was built to extrude power, and they could be grown so easily.”

Didn’t think I would live long enough to see the Matrix become a plausible future.

[–] Blueberrydreamer 3 points 11 months ago

Don't worry, you still haven't. It's still a blatantly nonsensical premise. Humans aren't just spontaneous power generators, we turn food into energy. If the machines can grow food to feed humans, they could just burn the plant material directly, increasing efficiency tenfold and eliminating all need for a wasteful energy sink like running a massive virtual reality.

So y'know, I'm more worried about a Terminator future.