• LemmyBe@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wether we like it or not AI is here to stay, and in 20-30 years, it’ll be as embedded in our lives as computers and smartphones are now.

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      Is there a “young man yells at clouds meme” here?

      “Yes, you’re very clever calling out the hype train. Oooh, what a smart boy you are!” Until the dust settles…

      Lemmy sounds like my grandma in 1998, “Pushah. This ‘internet’ is just a fad.'”

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          Yeah, the early Internet didn’t require 5 tons of coal be burned just to give you a made up answer to your query. This bubble is Pets.com only it is also murdering the rainforest while still be completely useless.

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            Estimates for chatgpt usage per query are on the order of 20-50 Wh, which is about the same as playing a demanding game on a gaming pc for a few minutes. Local models are significantly less.

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      Right, it did have an AI winter few decades ago. It’s indeed here to stay, it doesn’t many any of the current company marketing it right now will though.

      AI as a research field will stay, everything else maybe not.

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        2 months ago

        It’s not that we don’t have a climate crisis. We do, and I’m not an advocate for AI. It’s just…mankind. It’s what I think is going to happen, “wether we like it or not”.