The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.

“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”

    • Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Yeah, I think there was some efforts, until we found out that adding billions of parameters to a model would allow both to write the useless part in emails that nobody reads and to strip out the useless part in emails that nobody reads.

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
      01·
      29 days ago

      Historically AI always got much better. Usually after the field collapsed in an AI winter and several years went by in search for a new technique to then repeat the hype cycle. Tech bros want it to get better without that winter stage though.

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        29 days ago

        AI usually got better when people realized it wasn’t going to do all it was hyped up for but was useful for a certain set of tasks.

        Then it turned from world-changing hotness to super boring tech your washing machine uses to fine-tune its washing program.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Solar powered server farms in space. Self-powered, self-cooling, ‘outside the environment’. Is this a stupid idea?

    Edit: So it would seem the answer is yes. Good chat :) Thanks.