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Xolodno

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13. AI is a useful tool, that's it.
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:54 PM
Aug 2025

What it does is simply takes something that used to be a bit time consuming and makes it easier and faster. We all had our various "templates" to get work done faster. But the thing is, that's when the work began. AI doesn't find insights, it doesn't see patterns in a market that intuition would hone in on, it doesn't recognize things that could be a problem later, etc.

CEO's are being sold on AI because a vendor is telling them how much money they can save by eliminating employee's. And given I've worked with a few C Suite people, they aren't the brightest sad to say. All they are looking at is thier bonus and not looking how the company is shrinking and about to have an economic catastrophe.

An old manager of mine gave me a call, he got the boot and not being replaced. He, like I did, worked in the guts of the company, finding out where we could increase sales, where to expand, what training was needed. Now, completely gone because the CEO thinks AI can do that for them. It won't.

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I saw on a Bravos Research video on YouTube yesterday bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #1
And fortunes will be lost Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #14
True, which is why you just can't randomly speculate or use hot tips from GoogleFi bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #18
The cost to the environment is very high, Alice Kramden Aug 2025 #2
A major hurdle is energy madville Aug 2025 #3
Yes to your first paragraph. Your last sentence is untrue hyperbole. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #15
By 2028 data centers will consume 45% madville Aug 2025 #24
Do you have a link for your 2028 figure? Biden's DOE says 7 to 12 pc by 2028 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #25
Rock music was, is, and always will be a good thing. Generative AI, the kind of AI hyped now, is the highplainsdem Aug 2025 #4
Citizens turn against ai data centers cbabe Aug 2025 #5
The 2000 dot-com bubble didn't kill the internet. tinrobot Aug 2025 #6
True, but I find it interesting AI cap-ex is much bigger than dot-com cap-ex in 2000 Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #16
Probability OC375 Aug 2025 #7
LUDDITES UNITE !!! Mossfern Aug 2025 #12
Like humans Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #17
With any luck AI will crash so badly that investors will be scared off for decades. hunter Aug 2025 #8
Like the dot-com crash? Didn't scare off investors for even one decade. Some kind of crash, but not decades deep. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #19
I can imagine AI severely damaging a regional electric grid during a deadly heatwave. hunter Aug 2025 #27
I can imagine things too. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #29
I don't know about you, but my imagination, and even to a certain extent my paranoia... hunter Aug 2025 #30
My imagination has made me money, and kept me out of much trouble too. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #32
AI as it currently exists will end up like some kind of chronic disease. hunter Aug 2025 #33
A.I. uses too much electricity...... Jack Valentino Aug 2025 #9
Name a major technological breakthrough that the world back away from due to... Melon Aug 2025 #10
China consumes a lot of power. They also lead the world in reneawble energy investment. CentralMass Aug 2025 #26
China also has 1200 coal fired plants vs US 195 Melon Aug 2025 #28
More importantly they are building nuclear power plants... hunter Aug 2025 #31
It's not nearly as big of a bubble as the Dot-com bubble was because AI companies are making a crap load of sales Quixote1818 Aug 2025 #11
Excellent analysis. Thank you. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #20
AI is a useful tool, that's it. Xolodno Aug 2025 #13
It is missing the boat to dismiss it as a tool. The internet was/is a tool, but it was * transformative *. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2025 #21
It hurts people and the planet. Ron Green Aug 2025 #22
Precisely - and how will it be powered? By coal and gas, because they're cheap, and renewables are gay, woke and trans. hatrack Aug 2025 #23
Hey thanks for the credit bucolic_frolic Aug 2025 #34
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