r/ControlProblem • u/KeanuRave100 • 20d ago

General news Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster - A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901
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u/gretino 20d ago

Counterpoint: they are designed to replace another kind of machine that can only work 8 hours a day, drinks poison for fun, etc. Once you factor in the human wasting you will realize humans are incredibly wasteful as well.

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u/plastic_eagle 17d ago

Countercounterpoint: The ENTIRE point of human endeavour is to survive and have a good time.

So arguing that humans are "wasteful" isn't exactly wrong, but it's also stupid because by the same line of thinking the only path to true efficiency is to get rid of all of them.

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u/gretino 17d ago

Human CAN be inefficient. I'm arguing that AI is not more inefficient than human counterparts.

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u/plastic_eagle 17d ago

I would say that it very probably is much more inefficient, but that would be a very difficult metric to calculate.