This is focusing on the wrong thing. Electricity demands should be expected to drastically increase, with or without llms or other such programs. We need to be focusing on electrifying pretty much everything if we’re going to make a dent on carbon emissions, which will naturally lead to a significant increase in power demands. If that only leads to different and/or more carbon emissions, that’s a problem with the infrastructure of the grid, not what it’s powering.
And to be clear, I think these companies using stupid amounts of power to run these things is stupid as hell, but blaming them for problems that should have been addressed ages ago isn’t going to solve the problem. We need massive and sweeping infrastructure changes asap.
Give me an N!
N!
Give me a U!
U!
Give me a C!
C!
Give me an L!
L!
Give me an E!
E!
Give me an A!
A!
Give me an R!
R!
What does that make?
NUCLEAR!
No.
When they say AI might destroy humanity, it’s not due to some Terminator scenario…
It’s just cause they’re trashing the planet.
Do I need to go dig in Grand Central Station trash cans for a floppy disc?
Wait, is that a hackers reference?!?
Is this the account number of the hidden bank account in the Bahamas that the money was supposed to be deposited into?
I think so!
AI seems to be just more and more statistical probabilities hashed-out at record-breaking speeds and power-consumption of computing. Its like that adage, “sufficiently advanced that it is magic” we are doing that for AI. We are building more and more complex statistical analysis engines that spew out near-perfect answers from garbage inputs at the expense of actual analysis ,research and development.
You could train a model on all available research and use that to find holes that haven’t been explored in a way that no human possibly could.
You could do that training… and the “AI” can print out some lines that have the same writing styles as the articles. Because that’s all LLMs can do. Don’t buy the hype, they’re just energy sucking predictive text bots. Nothing more. The whole thing is a dead end as far as finding the actual systems behind intelligence.
someone has to find the holes to input into the AI training data :'D so i guess that wont work.
That requires intelligence to determine. “AI” ain’t got none of that. It can tell you a recipe for muffins that definitely is probably edible, except for the obvious poisons.
You could build a rocket in your backyard, fly to Mars, and come back to tell humanity about your trip.
we decided to slow plans to retire something no one wants to support something else that no one wants.
