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AI needs $6tn in annual revenue to justify data centre boom, Bain says | The National
www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion-by-2031-to-justify-data-centres/Replying to @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
How much is the cure/treatment for Parkinson’s worth? Or other intractable medical problems?
What about a device able to manipulate the containment field of a fusion reactor?
These are the reasons why everyone is buying the compute services - there are dozens of moonshot-grade problems that are suddenly possible to attempt. Many will fail, but whoever gets that one success will gain astronomical benefit.
Replying to @Xaphanos@lemmy.world
LLMs aren’t gonna give us any of those things. Thats just snake oil.
Replying to @CameronDev@programming.dev
AI is not just LLMs. Much of AI is machine control, and bioinformatics.llms are the foam on top of the ocean.
Replying to @Xaphanos@lemmy.world
Yeah, but the current hype is around LLM, the other kinda of AI are the same as they were before this started.
Replying to @takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Alphafold almost certainly benefited from genAI research, since 2 and 3 are somewhat genAI inspired architectures, they use their own versions of transformers and also diffusion
Replying to @Xaphanos@lemmy.world
I’m aware, and I wish people were more clear about the difference, but its LLMs that are driving these insane buildouts, not the other disciplines. This article is clearly talking about the LLM “AI”, not bioinformatics or anything that may actually be fruitful.
The LLM companies like to claim they’ll solve cancer, but its all snake oil hedged on a mythical AGI popping up and fixing everything.