Reader asks if society is going to let ‘artificial brains make all of our decisions for us’<\/p>\n
SooToday welcomes letters to the editor at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or via the website<\/a>. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication)<\/p>\n SooToday received the following letter in regards to AI and data centres:\u00a0<\/p>\n It is probably time for everyone to hit the pause button on Artificial Intelligence and ask the question:<\/p>\n Is AI something we need\u00a0or just something that we want?<\/p>\n There are already close to 6,000 data centres in North America alone!<\/p>\n Billions of dollars are being spent to build more data centres while millions of people struggle to simply survive.<\/p>\n We live in a finite world and we are subject to the laws of chemistry and physics.<\/p>\n More data centres require more\u00a0minerals and more electricity.<\/p>\n The electrical energy eventually gets converted to heat, which must be absorbed by an already over-heated planet!<\/p>\n We have become slaves to our own inventions. Are we going to let ‘artificial brains’\u00a0make all of our decisions for us?<\/p>\n No matter how big we build these data centres, there will never be a ‘computer’\u00a0that can replicate the human brain, which only weighs about 3 pounds!<\/p>\n Do we\u00a0really need\u00a0 AI to survive on this planet?<\/p>\n Peter McLarty,
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