Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor
Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor
go.theregister.com
Meta AI concocted low-carbon concrete used in new datacenter
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Update: I've just been banned from some of the db0 Stable Diffusion communities for being an "anti-AI troll," I think for posting this story?
db0 I love you guys but you do weird stuff sometimes
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Guess what? I am also banned and never had I ever interacted with this community. I think this issue needs to be raised on my instance…
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Do you think that would be productive? (edit:
I have some kind of strong hunch that it's one of your admins.it is not)I think people are just weird sometimes.
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Honestlym It's just one mod and two bans. If it wasn't for the open modlog, people wouldn't even notice. Y'all are making two random comm bans bigger than they need to be.
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This appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.
No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.
This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.
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I love how these tech companies are so desperate to prove that AI is useful that every time an engineer ever uses any kind of software that has even the tiniest element of machine learning they're all like, "See, AI did this! This was AI! Isn't AI so useful, and amazing, and definitely worth all the money we've spent and environmental damage we're doing!"