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AIEEEE! OK sometimes we are a debate club. Ye olde AI discussion thread

AI is

  • Going to be the death of humanity

    Votes: 1 16.7%

  • Or at least the death of our current economic system

    Votes: 3 50.0%

  • The dawn of the age of Superabundance

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Stop The World, I Want to Get Off

    Votes: 2 33.3%
  • Total voters
    6
And in other news, Musk is merging SpaceX and aiX. Most of the financial news sources just focus on the financial aspects of this, ARS Technica gets down to the business reason for it:

In an email to SpaceX employees on Monday, Musk said Starship will begin launching V3 Starlink satellites into orbit this year, as well as the next generation of direct-to-mobile satellites. The launches, he said, will be a “forcing function” to improve the performance of Starship, making it more rapidly reusable for data center deployment.


“The sheer number of satellites that will be needed for space-based data centers will push Starship to even greater heights,” Musk wrote. “With launches every hour carrying 200 tons per flight, Starship will deliver millions of tons to orbit and beyond per year, enabling an exciting future where humanity is out exploring amongst the stars.”

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

We need a catchy name for it, is Skynet taken? (Sadly, yes it is)
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
And in other news, Musk is merging SpaceX and aiX. Most of the financial news sources just focus on the financial aspects of this, ARS Technica gets down to the business reason for it:

In an email to SpaceX employees on Monday, Musk said Starship will begin launching V3 Starlink satellites into orbit this year, as well as the next generation of direct-to-mobile satellites. The launches, he said, will be a “forcing function” to improve the performance of Starship, making it more rapidly reusable for data center deployment.


“The sheer number of satellites that will be needed for space-based data centers will push Starship to even greater heights,” Musk wrote. “With launches every hour carrying 200 tons per flight, Starship will deliver millions of tons to orbit and beyond per year, enabling an exciting future where humanity is out exploring amongst the stars.”

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

We need a catchy name for it, is Skynet taken? (Sadly, yes it is)
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More worried about all the satellites and junk already up there bumping in to one another...
 
"Once the rockets are up,
Who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,"

-Tom Lehrer (Wernher Von Braun)

But yes, I would be interested in hearing what the reentry plans for orbiting data centers are too...
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
"Once the rockets are up,
Who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,"

-Tom Lehrer (Wernher Von Braun)

But yes, I would be interested in hearing what the reentry plans for orbiting data centers are too...
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Funnily enough, I have a picture from a history book - on Wernher von Braun's tombstone, they chisled the epitath (taken from one of his actual sayings)

"I aimed for the stars."

Underneath, some wag has scribbled :

"Sometimes I hit London."
 
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