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North Central US | JJM_ND - 5/21/2026 23:14
I do! Though I'm not going to apologize for having authored patents. They're all owned by the companies I've worked for along the way, and none of those companies have been "AI companies". Very few of them even involve AI, and those that do are leveraging old-school AI like neural networks (which were invented in the 1940's). Have a look yourself if you need some reading that'll put a guy to sleep ;) https://patents.justia.com/inventor/john-j-mewes
I won't argue that there is plenty of surveillance going on. Definitely more than I'd like, but then I sure do enjoy living in a safe and secure society, so it's complicated. All I was saying was that big brother and surveillance in general are not what is driving the boom in data center construction. The demand for the computing that goes on in them runs much deeper than that, and is coming from all over. The original question was with regard to data centers - what purpose they serve, why we need them, etc. The thread devolved into mostly nonsense and conspiracy theories relative to the original question.
AI is AI when they brand themselves as AI, like most do. Therefore, you have a stake in AI, probably financially as well, and are biased towards it.
You do realize flock and associated companies are private? As in some governments when they end the contract have to go around putting buckets and bags over the cameras, only for the company to turn around and launch a lawsuit over the legality of recording in public spaces.
I do question you on thinking that living in a surveillance state is necessary for safety, being as it didn't work in the USSR nor is it working in NYC, Detroit, Chicago, the West Coast cities, and elsewhere. Why are you living in North Dakota and not one of the said cities where they are covered in cameras like you talk so favorably about? Surely you feel unsafe, you must apparently sleep with a shotgun and have bars on every window of your house, and have a few hundred cameras on your yard. | |
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I will be the one to ask.