For full disclosure, I remembered once someone claimed to me there are AI models that use much less power. But, to confirm that statement before replying, I looked up an investigation, and they say it’s much murkier, and that a company’s own claims are usually understating it. So, you’re on point.
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underisk@lemmy.ml 3 days agoEven Bernie Sanders acknowledged on the senate floor that in a perfect world, where AI is owned by people invested in world benefit, moderate AI use could improve many people’s lives.
I don’t think you should make a claim like this while AI is being heavily subsidized and burning VC cash to stay afloat. The truth is whatever value it may add to such a society might actually be completely negated by it’s resource costs. Is even “moderate” AI use ecologically or economically sustainable?
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Indeed, as they said in Italian “if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” … the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it’s not the case.