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The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

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[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 21 points 3 months ago

But bill gates says not to worry about it, because ai will solve the climate disaster it's creating. -_-

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

He was also claiming AI would destroy us a few years ago. (Not talking about climate, skynet style)

Side note: listening to him is as bad as listening to a celebrity.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Maybe worse, since society considers him a SME on subjects he isn't, she they listen to his word as though it's coming from an actual SME.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

It's not creating a climate disaster, just amplifying the existing one.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

All we gotta do is ask chatgpt how to fix it. Ezpz

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Tech could save us, but not AI. The tech that could isn't profitable enough to do so, though, so it's not happening. And it's not like oil corp. shareholders & execs are gonna accept a pay cut so that their subsidies could be redirected to more ecologically sustainable tech. Nope, we live in capitalist hell. At least, until we don't.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

I'm cheered that we now have so much wind and solar wanting to come online that it's straining grid interconnects so countries (US and NL for example) suddenly have to spend a bundle on infra so that the power can get across continents to where it's needed

this is a very cool problem to have: oh no! we have too much new clean energy!

it may not be sufficient, but it's an excellent start

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