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That event happened in 2022. It keeps being tagged as "AI" when it was nothing more than a dumb front end for a document search.

Yes, it still screwed up. And yes, Air Canada tried to weasel out of it, but even though it was a chatbot it had no LLM behind it.

It previously was on Teams and Enterprise.

There's a little 'update' blob to say now (Oct 23) 'Expanding to Pro and Max plans'

It is confusing though. Why not a separate post?

I was taken aback recently when a Gen-ish Z person told me AI was 'destroying all the water'. I've done data center work, and while I know it is used for cooling, I don't think I've ever personally destroyed any large bodies of water.

There is a perception out there about GenAI and water that goes surprisingly deep. I was told we are will be living in a drought-stricken hellscape, and AI is to blame.

I'd like to know the equivalent energy consumption of a single TikTok video, but that is probably arguing the wrong thing. My bigger question is ... where do they think that water goes? Steam? The assumption is that it is gone forever, and I can't get over how people could just take that at face value.

From the article:

People are also more likely to click into web content that helps them learn more — such as an in-depth review, an original post, a unique perspective or a thoughtful first-person analysis

So... not the blog spam that was previously prioritized by Google Search? It's almost as if SEO had some downsides they are only just now discovering.

Private equity would like a word...

Someone is probably already making the most brutal Factorio mod of all time.

My math may be off, but it seems like 2000 joules to cool the volume of air 1 degree C vs 6,000,000 for the same volume of water.

It's the stuff in the fridge that takes the initial work, repeatedly exchanging the air is maybe a rounding error?

Given that Factorio has logic gates and people have built various programs (including Doom, iirc) how long will it take before someone runs an LLM inside the game?

I once had a (older) Russian colleague tell me about how he learned to program. He would write it out longhand, because access to compilers was limited to certain time slots in University. He know it had to work first time, otherwise he had to wait for the next chance to fix the bug.

I'm sure that was true for everyone back in the punchcard days. It would enforce a kind of rigor that I can blissfully ignore.

edit: I see the exact same story in the linked thread, so clearly a lot of Russians are very proud of that skill