The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.

“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Cool article. Thanks for the link. As an older fellow, but a lifetime reader, mainly of sci-fi, I feel thankful that I’ve been doing something to offset the years of drug and alcohol abuse. :) I’m considering joining a book club, now.

    Recently, though, I went through and read all the novels of Robert Rankin up to ‘The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age’, which kind of broke my mind a bit - I DO NOT recommend it, there’s like 50 of them - and it’s taken me a year or so to feel like starting to read novels again. They’re wildly entertaining if you’re a fan of running gags and sheer insane premises, but I shouldn’t have taken them all at once.

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      It’s pretty cool how books are more than just fuel for imagination, no? But I second the idea of joining a book club, because not only do you get the cognitive effects of a book, but you get the social benefits of a club!