Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces

All that scaling it up accomplishes is waste. LLM true believers are effectively arguing their tech accomplishes free energy when the costs mean it’s effectively the opposite

@baldur
This slight-of-hand hiding the energy inefficiency of Ai is partially made possible by externalizing costs from morbidly rich oligarchs onto the rest of us.