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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