My view of AI (10)

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Fairy-Possum Like this commercial from 2004. CGI Gene Kelly.
One of the ones I remember. There were a few others I do believe.

And it was expensive at the time.

[Fairy-Possum]

Gives me the heeby geebies mate. They dry these poor actors for all their worth, before and after death

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Elon Musk caps Tesla staff’s AI spending


Elon Musk has capped Tesla employees’ spending on AI at $200 (£150) a week as companies seek to rein in runaway bills.

Staff at the electric vehicle manufacturer have been told that their use of the technology will be limited from Monday.

The cap does not apply to Grok, Mr Musk’s own AI system, which has struggled compared to rivals such as Anthropic’s Claude, ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

Many large companies have pushed their employees to use AI as much as possible hoping it will make them more productive.

Mr Musk said earlier this year that AI would allow “output” per Tesla worker to get “nutty high”.

But the push to use AI has led to soaring bills, as the cost of using these systems rises with demand. There are fears that staff are also wastefully using AI to carry out menial tasks in an attempt to demonstrate they are using it.

Several companies are now seeking to rein in staff use. Uber, which had told employees to use AI as much as possible, recently limited usage to $1,500 per month, while Meta, Walmart and Coinbase have all said they will introduce caps.

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Teachers Asked to ‘Turn Off Lights’ in County Packed With Data Centers


Henrico County employees, including school staff, have reportedly been asked to conserve electricity after the Virginia county, home to multiple data centers, said its power costs for government and school facilities would rise by nearly 25 percent starting July 1, adding an estimated $5 million in the next fiscal year.

County Manager John Vithoulkas told employees in a June 26 email that the rate paid for electricity “will increase dramatically” and that the county anticipates additional increases “in the years ahead,” according to 404 Media and the Henrico Citizen.

Henrico has become a data center hub in recent years. 404 Media reported that the county has 37 data centers and plans for 17 more, while the Henrico Citizen reported that Henrico’s eastern corridor is now home to at least 16 facilities, with more on the way. County officials have attributed at least part of the rate increase to rising fuel costs, but have not connected it to data centers, according to the Henrico Citizen.

[boredjedi]

Ugh those data centers. A bane for everyone. Look what they did to our computer prices.

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Fairy-Possum More recent CGI dead actors that's been CGI'd. Probably the last with
the development of Ai in full swing.

Bruce Lee CGI Johnnie Walker commercial HD 2013

I remember this one with Audrey Hepburn from 2013