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24 degrees in my friend’s office yesterday. I bet you can’t guess…
1. The units
2. Who leads the entity she works for
Are you doing resolutions or themes this year, and what are they?
I hate to say it, but my theme is “deliver and get $$$,” because I need to do both a lot more frequently.
Wait. It’s been increasing since at least 2011 according to that plot. It’s the nature of cloud services companies to increase every year as people keep loading them up with more data, documents, and emails. If it’s increasing more _slowly_, that implies that AI is actually helping. If AI is the power sucker people claim, the increase should be higher than pre-2020, not lower.
Less energy use is less energy use. IF you don’t like HOW the energy issuing used, that’s a you problem.
The only difference is that the energy used for AI can be counted because it’s on one meter. The 100-1000x energy that it’s saving is 1000’s of meters so you can pretend it doesn’t exist. It does. I know because I used to be turning one of those meters doing freelance writing.
Hmm. I’m usually 100% behind what NPR says but the science seems to say something else.
As AI systems proliferate, their greenhouse gas emissions are an increasingly important concern for human societies. In this article, we present a comparative analysis of the carbon emissions associated with AI systems (ChatGPT, BLOOM, DALL-E2, Midjourney) and human individuals performing equivalent writing and illustrating tasks. Our findings reveal that AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writers, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts. Emissions analyses do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
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