Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
@tante
…and they are trying to bring back #nuclear with #AI …
While #nuclearenergy is not #fossil it not #green at all - but #colonial , #deadly & totally unfair because, like in AI, the #profits are being privatised, the costs are hitting the whole #society & the #planet
But from the point of view of someone believing in #cybernetics or one of its #TESCREAL grandchildren it is great - because in cybernetics EVERY problem will be solved in "the future" by "technology"
@Kuttenfunker @Katika @tante Who is this "everyone" you are talking about?
I'm a senior engineer and I never use AI, never ever ever, because it gives bad results, because I like doing my work myself, but mainly because the whole plan of stealing all human knowledge and selling it back to us while destroying almost all jobs is incredibly evil.
@Kuttenfunker @TomSwirly @Katika @tante
"Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar recently published an editorial reviewing several studies in which the AI alone performed better than either humans alone or humans-plus-AI ... they noted: “When A.I. worked independently to diagnose patients, it achieved 92 percent accuracy, while physicians using A.I. assistance were only 76 percent accurate—barely better than the 74 percent they achieved without A.I.”"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2025/02/28/when-medical-ai-starts-getting-better-than-human-doctors/
@hadon @Kuttenfunker @Katika @tante
We're talking apples and oranges here.
No one doubts the value of purpose-built statistical models in a specific area to do better at interpreting large collections of digital data like a medical image. Better diagnosis helps the public good.
It's the general purpose LLMs we are against, partly because they do a poor job, but mainly because they are, as I explained, a massive heist for the benefit of a tiny number of rich, evil people.
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