It's terrible for the environment.
Really really really terrible. It burns horrendous amounts of power, and uses up a lot of water. Data centers use more power than all but a handful of countries:
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It's one of many reasons I am pretty anti-AI. The actual uses for science are much less destructive because they have smaller, targeted databases. But the big LLMs that are stolen data by Meta and Google? And the use of AI that leads to people using it to "write" and cheat on tests, and in legal briefings? Nah. Count me out.
It's terrible for the environment.
Like cars, airplanes and the industrial revolution in general, I think the genie is out of the bottle.
Historically humans have chosen any number of downgrades in quality in exchange for convenience.
It is here. It horrifies me but fascinates me too.
ION, hot diggity damn my coffee is good this morning. I'm already two-thirds done and it's making me sad that it will be empty soon.
I wish I could loop those first few sips for an hour without burning a hole in my stomach.
Like cars, airplanes and the industrial revolution in general, I think the genie is out of the bottle.
I know and understand the multitude of reasons to oppose AI, but there is no halting technology. Perhaps safeguards can be imposed, but judging from the changes in only my lifetime, I can only imagine what life will be like in another decade. The change only becomes more rapid. Will we meet George Jetson in my lifetime, maybe? My only hope is that the good outweighs the bad, but change is inevitable.
Like cars, airplanes and the industrial revolution in general, I think the genie is out of the bottle.
Yeah, no. That’s like saying, “womp womp. Might as well burn coal and drive a gas guzzling SUV. It’s too late to do anything so why not make it worse?”
