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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

you really like someone else doing your job for you:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/hidden-costs-ai-impending-energy-and-resource-strain

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/power-mad-ais-massive-energy-demand-risks-causing-major-environmental-headaches-2023-12-04/

https://www.numenta.com/blog/2022/05/24/ai-is-harming-our-planet/

(discalaimer: this is just to argue that these arguments are almost as old chatgpt, I am not endorsing any of the articles above and have not read all)

In a world that is in an energy crisis and cant still produce enough renewable energy to replace most of its non renewables, I am not going to rail new tech but I will rail against billionaires who try to abuse ownership of a new tech to gain more money with questionable returns compared to damage its causing. I am going to note again that this is not railing/criticism against all use cases and development of AI. But for a minute fraction of compute requirements of AI platforms like chatgpt, academics can probably come up with AI/machine learning algorithms that can maybe optimise energy usage and distribution.

this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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