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encoderer ◴[] No.41840917[source]
Finally, 24 years in, it’s really starting to FEEL like a new century.
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Dig1t ◴[] No.41841661[source]
Sort of feels like we wasted a long time having our best and brightest figuring out how to optimize advertising algorithms. I think we're finally starting to recover from that phase.
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bpodgursky ◴[] No.41841965[source]
These nuclear reactors are literally being built to optimize advertising algorithms.
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Dig1t ◴[] No.41842006[source]
Sort of, they are being built to power AI models which do all kinds of things, but yes definitely advertising is part of it. Ads are mature now though, these mega corps have fine-tuned their products and squeezed every last advertising penny out of their audiences that they can, there isn't as much new stuff to build in that area now.
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1. asdf000333 ◴[] No.41850842[source]
I'm still curious what all these companies exactly want genAI for, but I doubt it's about ads. And the other kinds of AI aren't driving the new power usage.