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Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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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. 🤦♂️
There are lots of equally intensive AI models being used for various sciences. Being put to use in medicine, physics or even climate research.
Here's an article going into how AI is helping accelerate important worthwhile research
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
Can you find an article that better fits my narrative?
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
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".