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    Artificial intelligence is already an environmental problem - The energy and water consumption of Google and Microsoft, the main developers of generative AI, as well as their carbon emissions, have skyrocketed for the second consecutive year
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    Artificial intelligence is already an environmental problem – The energy and water consumption of Google and Microsoft, the main developers of generative AI, as well as their carbon emissions, have skyrocketed for the second consecutive year


    Artificial intelligence is already an environmental problem – The energy and water consumption of Google and Microsoft, the main developers of generative AI, as well as their carbon emissions, have skyrocketed for the second consecutive year

    https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-07-16/artificial-intelligence-is-already-an-environmental-problem.html

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    1. Phoenix5869 on

      All the billions of dollars pouring in from silicon valley, all this time and effort and all the resources spent… and what do we have to show for it? A glorified cleverbot and a better siri. Aswell as driverless cars that don’t drive, robots that can’t even peel an orange properly, and “self help” algorithms that tell it’s suicidal users to kill themselves.

    2. acuet on

      If Idiocracy wasn’t support to be a documentary, then we have this.

      “The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.’s of body heat. We are, as an energy source, easily renewable and completely recyclable, the dead liquified and fed intravenously to the living.” -Morpheus(The Matrix)