We keep hearing AI framed as an apocalypse or a miracle. Reality is far less dramatic.
On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Sayash Kapoor joins Kevin Frazier to unpack AI as a powerful—but ultimately normal—general-purpose technology & what that means for democracy, work, risk, and policy.
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https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-as-normal-technology
"Reality is far less dramatic"?
I'd be interested in what you'll have to say about your HDD purchases, by the end of this year.
https://archive.org/web/petabox
"#AI"
Well, it seems didn't even take a quarter of a year for reality to bite:
»Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, the most important archiving projects in the history of the internet, told 404 Media that the skyrocketing costs of storage is “a very real issue costing us time and money.”
“We have found that the preferred 28-30TB drives are just not available or at very high price,” Kahle said. “We gather over 100 terabytes of new materials each day, and we have over 210 Petabytes of materials already archived on machines that need continuous upgrades and maintenance, so we need to constantly get new hard drives.” «
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