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   Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 15:53:22 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

   *I get it why he's reasonably upset about the current irrational state of the human condition, but it's like he's never heard of religion or nationalism

   https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

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     skry (skry@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 16:17:40 JST skry

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     @bruces “…early tests of GPT-5 revealed all kinds of anecdotal examples of sloppy answers to queries, including hallucinations, simple-arithmetic errors, and failures in basic reasoning.“ 💨 💨 💨 💨 💨

     And yet: “A daily energy use of 45 GWh is enormous…, so data centers running OpenAI's GPT-5 at 18 Wh per query could require the power equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, an amount that could be enough to power a small country. “

     https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-power-consumption-could-be-as-much-as-eight-times-higher-than-gpt-4-research-institute-estimates-medium-sized-gpt-5-response-can-consume-up-to-40-watt-hours-of-electricity

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     Going T. Maine (going_to_maine@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 17:59:03 JST Going T. Maine

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     @bruces have you read The Stammering Century? It keeps coming to mind.