You Thought The Paperclip Was Bad......

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft-to-add-copilot-button-to-keyboards-to-summon-ai-companion-13041966

It's about to get a whole lot worse. These things never help they slow you down and annoy you. At work we have this thing called "assistant" it's anything but! First thing I do when I log in is disable it!

[barry1010]

I like copilot, the summariser is particularly useful.

I hated the paperclip

[Khandro]

Supercomputers powering AI research use an extrordinary quantity of water as coolant. I read that engineers at the waterworks in West Des Moines, Iowa, said that 6%  went to Microsoft supercomputers powering ChatGPT and programes like it & they wondered if this continues if the future residents can be assured of adequate water supplies.

[brainiac]

^^  They also use a phenomenal amount of electricity

[ToraToraTora]

TBF Khandro that's drop in the ocean compared to Bit coin miners.

[Khandro]

My knowledge on the subject is little better than zero, but we use water in our cars as a coolant which circulates, why does this, presumably clean drinking water, have to be wasted ?

[ToraToraTora]

Yes good point Khandro, I have little idea of the actual hardware but you'd have thought the cooling system would work like a car.

[youngmafbog]

Just turn them off, not really any different to Cortina they just uck the life out of your processor and that's before it gets to the resource hungry servers.

[barry1010]

Copilot doesn't hog the resources on my PC, it seems quick and efficient.

Good fun, too, creating pictures and daft poems.