Techbros try to address global warming instead of addressing the next big scam fad (impossible)
Wait till the author of this article finds out about oil companies.
Repeat after me: This. present. hype. is. not. A.I. By parroting the marketing bullshit, it doesn’t become less false. Large Language Models are just glorified pattern matching and everyone who calls them AI is a dumb fuck.
Doesn’t make it not a disruptive technology
True. But it makes the 30% extra carbon emissions even worse: Ruining our climate for something that isn’t even AI. Not that ruining it for anything should be on the table.
It’s called AI even if it isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s unfortunately how language works. Like how literally has been redefined to mean figuratively.
It’s called AI even if it isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s unfortunately how language works.
Only for people for whom words don’t have meanings. There is nothing “intelligent” about pattern matching. As I said - only dumbfucks call it “A.I.” and we shouldn’t regurgitate the verbal diarrhea of marketing idiots.
You can be upset about it, it doesn’t change the fact that it IS called AI. Also the meaning of words change constantly.
I love how they’re placing the onus on the suppliers. “We’ll do the rest.” Great.
This wasn’t how Skynet was supposed to destroy civilization.
The Animatrix described it fairly closely
What a weird coincidence. I showed my daughter The Matrix for the first time last night. It’s been a long time since I was able to see someone do a “what the fuck?!” after he takes the red pill.
Fuck it, if we’re dumb/selfish enough to be doing this, let’s get it over with.
Good luck dolphin people! My only advice, if you have any dolphins incessantly trying to claim more resources for themselves than all the other dolphins, beat the ever loving shit out of them and nip that in the bud.
Or here’s a much better idea; strap yourself to the dolphin so when they leave, you get to come with. Make sure you bribe them with fish.
If someone wants to start the revolution, I’m all in. I just can’t exactly do much by myself, and I’m bad at networking.
I have a feeling there is a very large number of people just waiting for the shoe to drop
Something nobody wants helping destroy something everyone needs.
CEOs: AI will help us lower our carbon emissions!
CEOs when they actually get their hands on AI:
Don’t worry, they have that green leaf in their settings in windows. They’re good on emission.
Throwing the lamest capitalist party at the end of the world. Wooo…AI…boo…planet earth?..
Honestly the good news is electricity is expensive at that scale. The are probably looking at nuclear and solar for cost.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft has increased carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 30 percent since 2020, making its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 even more difficult, and it looks like AI is to blame.
However, it adds: “Amid this optimism, we face the realities of the complexity of the challenge…in FY23 our emissions increased by 29.1 percent across Scope 1, 2, and 3 from our 2020 baseline, as we continue to invest in the infrastructure needed to advance new technologies.”
Scope 3 accounts for more than 96 percent of Microsoft’s total emissions, which includes those from its supply chain, the life cycle of its hardware and devices and other indirect sources.
For other environmental impacts, Microsoft says it aims for zero waste from building and operations by 2030, and that 90 percent of its servers and all cloud hardware will be reused and recycled by 2025.
Not that Microsoft plans to slow down; last month, the company said it aimed to triple the rate at which it builds out additional datacenter capacity in the first half of its fiscal year 2025.
This latest offering introduces direct liquid-to-chip cooling technology coupled with rear door heat exchangers, and will be available in 170 of Digital Realty’s facilities globally, the company said.
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All to do what? Write emails and generate mediocre pictures?
The usefulness of AI currently is not much better than predictive text.
Hey, hey, now! It doesn’t just write full emails from merely a single sentence… it also summarizes full emails down to one sentence on the other end.
I didn’t even realize it could do that! I’m going to use this on emails from HR to translate them to simple English sentences.
“No raises this year because greed”
“We want you to work Saturdays now”
It’s a fun tool for creative writing at least
Oh it’s far more useful than that. It’s the shiny new thing that’s going to make a lot of money for shareholders
Only if they have a killer app that people are willing to pay for…
I really hope that on-device AI becomes competitive soon. It’s nice to see that on-device is the way large portions of the industry is going, but cloud AI just uses way too much energy. Not to mention the resources required to manufacture millions of large-die GPUs.
It’s probably naive to think that the corporations that created this problem will solve it, but it honestly seems like the most feasible path forward in the near term. I certainly don’t expect the world’s governments to be effective at regulating AI any time soon.
Ahaha, yes, exactly, because it is essentially just a turbo charged text predictor with 40GB (or more) of data.
Time to spin it off into a subsidiary operating company with no climate goals to meet.
