Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools.
Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
The factoid that “MS copilot was more successful than 84% of college students at intro level college course tests” isn’t an indication that an LLM is doing something impressive.
It’s an indication that we failed a whole generation of young people by feeding them mediocrity and industrialized info packages instead of meaningful human education.
If you approach your education as a means of turning people into cogs in a machine, of course the machine will be more successful than most of them.
Bei der 73. Tagung der Nobelpreisträger in Lindau ging es um Quantenphysik, aber auch die Frage, wie Künstliche Intelligenz die Wissenschaft verändert.
I keep saying #AI is the latest scam from Big Tech. And too many SAAS, businesses, and tools are being conned into investing in it.
1)The expense to run AI LLMs is astronomical! And it has yet to turn a profit
That cost is going to significantly damage all but the largest businesses implementing AI tools
It’s being downplayed, but AI can LIE. The industry calls it “hallucinations,” but it’s a marketing label for LIES. You just can’t trust results generated by AI. That means the onus falls on the user to fact check and perform due diligence. That’s yet another layer of responsibility and labor.
And the environmental impact of the server requirements and power needed to run these models is alarming.
My prediction is the AI bubble is going to burst soon.
@marcuwekling
Oh cool.
Mir haben schon die zwei aktuellen YT-Clips zu #AI & Co. sehr gut gefallen.
Aber ich war auch null überrascht, dass QualityLand so schnell in der Gegenwart angekommen ist. Es ist so auf den Punkt gut geschrieben.
@arstechnica I couldn't draw humans properly without studying the #nude form; I don't know why anyone thought that restricting an #AI Library to safe for work images was a good idea.
Meta is deploying chatbots powered by AI to impersonate humans in its discussion groups. The chatbots make stuff up—that is their nature. One invents a nonexistent child. Another pretends to have nonexistent merchandise. It shouldn’t be necessary to explain how vile and poisonous this is, but Casey Fiesler @cfiesler spells it out:
If you still have a Facebook account, I would suggest that now is an excellent time to delete all the content and upload a ton of random mutant scribbles to screw with their training data.
You want to screw with my data?
My data will screw with you.
@arstechnica it doesn’t need work it needs a fundamental rethink of whether the technology makes sense outside of specific research or narrow use cases.
It should never have made it out of research labs or opt-in curiosities for technologists.
None of these details are interesting and almost aren’t even worth reporting on.
This is a stupid, stupid bubble and saying they need to work on parts of it is like saying we’re close but just need refinement which is concretely untrue.
Microsofts Recall läutet das Ende des Personal Computers ein
Persönlich ist an einem PC nichts mehr, wenn Windows alle paar Sekunden Screenshots speichert. Es ist egal, ob das lokal stattfindet, meint Nico Ernst.
@arstechnica Sounds like “severe” may be doing a lot of work there.
If you hypothesize an existential risk to all of humanity from psuedo-#AI, that becomes your definition of a “severe” risk. Mere algorithmic enforcement and exacerbation of existing social ills is barely a blip on that scale, so why worry about that?
They’re ALREADY deploying tools with severe risks. We already have #deepfake & search degradation problems that are not being mitigated by these companies.
@arstechnica Classic example of trying to shift the Overton window, i.e. to move the unthinkable (dystopian) into the realm of the possible in the public discourse. The main use is not the product itself, but the profits that MS can extract from the shift in the discourse space: us all to be more ready to accept the lesser evil.
AI have many use, but it is definitely not for occupying our phone storage and does nothing useful. My phone have been stuffed by meta chatbot, and I don’t want another chatbot in my phone that have no real application.