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,”

  • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
    611·
    2 months ago

    Ypu know what I don’t hear on lemmy? People complaining that crypto world consumes more energy than AI world and one of those is far more useless in grand scheme of things.

    So how comes it is A issue for AI, but everyone seemingly has forgotten about crypto?

    Last I heard, securing one transaction on chain is equalivent to powering US household for many days (feel free to fact check). In comparison, generating LLM text for entire hour on your PC is pretty much the same as gaming for two hours (very approx., your gpu is unlikely at 100% load), which means gaming world is far more destructive energy wise. Are you getting triggered yet?

    • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      What stone did you live under? The huge power consumption of crypto was often debated. You just don’t hear too much about it because people don’t really talk about crypto much anymore. Now it’s mostly just people pro crypto who discuss it. And obviously they tend to talk leas about the downsides.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Eh, that enormous energy consumption hasn’t change, y’know. For Bitcoin, for example, the basic concept is still that ALL wallets have to process ALL transactions, which scales as well as studfing a walrus in a mini Cooper. Bitcoin is extremely energy inefficient and is simply not a good replacement for transactions for the entire world.

        Same goes for all other block chain technologies, they’re fundamentally flawed and won’t ever be good. If you want a good alternative to visa and MasterCard, you’ll need something fundamentally different from blockchain tech.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        … Oh, so so the terawatts of power wasted is no longer a problem because people don’t really speak of it anymore and cryptobros tried to debate it.

        If I’m living under a stone, you’re straight up stoned.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        This? Hipster 4chan from everything I’ve seen. Altought nowadays 4chan tends to be less hateful/extreme, especially when it comes to calls for genocide/killings of Jews

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      You don’t hear so much about it because it has faded a bit into the background and crypto bros work hard spreading misinformation about how awesome Bitcoin is.

      Technically, blockchain tech is interesting, bit nothing more than that. Blockchain technology is fundamentally flawed. Requiring everyone to confirm the same transactions by having everyone make the same CPU / GPU / memory intensive calculations is just dumb and it won’t scale to anything that could sustain the daily transactions of even a single small country, let alone the world.

      At least AI has a whole lot of pieces that are fundamentally “useful”. As it currently stands, AI will need completely new concepts and technologies to be able to grow in capabilities and shrink in power requirements, but at least the prices that are there are reasonably useful.

      Blockchain technology is fundamentally flawed for just about any application at all.

      Having said all that, fuck AI companies. AI could be a great new tool for humanity but instead we hacet all sorts of shitty assistants being shoved down our throats. Oh, and AI revenge porn, that too