"Data Centers" remains a terrible name for what are the giant thinking machines we are building. The association to the public that of privacy invasion and stealing data. It also implies also "data transmission" hence the insane brainworm of "Data Center Radiation!"
Mimi Montgomery@mimi_montgom
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We used to have a better name "Supercomputers." It is an awesome term, with great connotations. It isn't used because it sounds old to technical people, hence they stick to the 2010s cloud computing terminology.
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Artificial Intelligence used to sound old timey that's why everything was called Machine Learning in the 2010s. After 2022 it is the other way around. Technical people can never think past the last wave of tech jargon. But you can change it quite easily!
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"supercomputers" is really the better term for what they are.
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Many are saying this.
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We used to have a better name "Supercomputers." It is an awesome term, with great connotations. It isn't used because it sounds old to technical people, hence they stick to the 2010s cloud computing terminology.
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What's the suggestion? Compute Hubs?
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Supercomputers or supercomputing centers immediate marginal improvement, and not incorrect as description.
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It’s easier to connect economic status and civic prestige to “supercomputer”
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Exactly!
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I worry that in political debates, you cannot control your opponent's terminology. Notice how a pro-lifer describes their enemy as "pro-choice", but a pro-choicer describes themselves as "pro-bodily autonomy".
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Nvidia keep saying “AI factory” for this reason.
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supercomputers sounds way better
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People hear data and panic
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Very annoying how stupid the public debate on this is when so much is actually on the line. I have probably never felt the decline of complex thinking so intensely.
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Go stick then in old coal mines or quarrys. People wouldn't care as those places are already graphically speaking a mess
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The only thing for sure is future conpute will be cheap.
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Your not saying the public is wrong to associate those things with them, or are you?
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I clean the floor in the datacenter 😭 I manage the airflow in the supercomputing cluster we are going to use to bomb Mars if the chinese get here before us 😃
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AI literally runs on stolen, theoretically copyright-protected, data.
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Stealing data 😢😭🤬 Stealing 20% of paycheck🫪😆☺️
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Freedom Clusters
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Data 3rd Space with bowling alley, cafe and gastropub
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Proto Matrix Nodes!
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