boemPower-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply
Is it time yet to darken the sky?
EdibleFriendWe’re starting with the ocean and working our way up
FaceDeerThat's not going to help improve the electricity supply.
Sure it will! It’ll allow us to turn humans…into this
So either less AI or more efficient AI, right?
Rusty ShacklefordAs a deep neural network specialist, yes, to both.
MxM111Less AI is not an option. But more electricity is another alternative.
I have a dejavu with Blockchain.
We could make bitcoin and such unlawful. But making AI forbidden is good maybe for SciFi.
UsernameblankfaceSeems like ai companies should take some of that investor cash and build up their own power supply. Maybe they can be the ones to use the small, modular nuclear power stations I’ve heard a little about. Or go bananas on solar and various energy storage solutions.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆How much of that AI is actually being used for something worthwhile? Most of the AI I see being sold to the public is pointless bullshit. Nobody needs Microsoft Copilot or Bard or whatever for home/personal use; it’s just a new gimmick that’s called something other than what it is to captivate the imagination. It’s fuckin’ Bonzai Buddy 2.0.
These dumbass “AIs” would be better served as NPCs in video games, and instead they’re using them to just write the entire story and come up with lore details. 🤦♂️
Preach, friend. I’m so sick of seeing how everything is getting some useless AI service jammed into it for no reason. At best its just a pointless feature that can be ignored. At worst it’s a data and memory vacuum that mines people’s activity in the name of “product improvements”.
cm0002Can you find an article that better fits my narrative?
Those aren’t being sold to the general public, though. Those have value; the shit being put into our phones and operating systems or controlling search engines and allowing people to have AI girlfriends does not.
True, but the research put into such things does translate into other far more beneficial areas. I say let those corporations spend the billions of dollars, eventually the consumer side will peter out but the knock-on effects for AI in science will continue for years to come
Yeah, i hate how LLMs are getting lumped into actually useful machine learning stuff that has been in development for years without all the hype and idiot CEOs trying to use it to layoff useful employees
Well, Transcendence from 2014 got this right.
Could someone give me examples about fields where the AI is already useful?
Because right now it looks like the answer to a question no one asked.
I could see how it could be useful for NOC in videogames or as an assistant, but if it involves wasting so much energy, I don’t see the point.
or as an assistant
Who couldn’t use an assistant?
I find GitHub copilot incredibly helpful — almost indispensable.
That’s where I can’t agree with you. I’d say we need to produce the same amount of energy while trying to have more efficient devices.
That’s also why I’m asking what AI could bring to humanity. If it brings us ways to save energy and have enough food for a growing population, then I’d consider it. But for now, from what I know, it’s just creating a new need when we are already consuming way too much and destroying our planet.
Instead of creating new needs, we should try to live with less, while still enjoying life.
Cars getting bigger and heavier is clearly true, but they are also consuming less (at least for ICE cars) than before. My Seat Leon Cupra is drinking way less fuel than my old Audi S4 Avant while being more spacious inside. I’m also sure that at one point we’re gonna start having smaller and more efficient electric cars because not everyone wants a huge SUV.
KeriKitty (They(/It))[Very sarcasm] We can just burn more coal or just huck poor people into furnaces or something! Wait no, give them cars! Coal rollin’ cars!!! Why are we even pretending that racing toward extinction isn’t our goal? Embrace doom! Down with humanity! Up with constant fucking around with no regard for costs or consequences!
May I please have some painkillers before being tossed into the furnace, though :-\ Or maybe just like, toss some naproxen in after me I guess?
Anybody else notice the first graph goes from 2020 to 1996?
I guess that’s meant to be 2025 since the graph is projected? Pretty funky screw up though.
Maybe we can ask ai how to make more power so there can be more ai. But then, when it tells us, we just mine more crypto. Fuck ai. Crypto won’t murder us.