Generative AI is a climate disaster
Generative AI is a climate disaster
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
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.
But bill gates says not to worry about it, because ai will solve the climate disaster it's creating. -_-
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.
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.
It's not creating a climate disaster, just amplifying the existing one.
All we gotta do is ask chatgpt how to fix it. Ezpz
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.
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
Not putting awnings on the West windows of every window in America is a disaster!
This guy technology connects.
generating images using ai barely uses any energy.
Nope it isn't. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn't generate. Blame the energy sector.
Why the hell aren't we using mix of nuclear and renewables in this day and age is beyond me
holy shit your post history of full of takes this bad, that's an impressive track record of dim. must be exhausting
Since we aren't using those it is in fact a climate disaster currently and they know that.
Assuming you want to ground your argument in our reality.
Some energy sources are and some arent polluting. Do you suggest I should audit every single one of these companies on how they power stuff?
I don't even know if development of AI is productive or not, maybe it just consumes electricity, or maybe in the future AI will build energy sources that will sustain humanity for ever.