Is it time yet to darken the sky?
We’re starting with the ocean and working our way up
Well, Transcendence from 2014 got this right.
Could someone give me examples about fields where the AI is already useful?
Because right now it looks like the answer to a question no one asked.
I could see how it could be useful for NOC in videogames or as an assistant, but if it involves wasting so much energy, I don’t see the point.
or as an assistant
Is there any field where an assistant is worthless? I find GitHub CoPilot almost indispensable and soon equivalents will be available for nearly any industry.
Mostly though, I reject the idea that AI is a massive burden on our energy grid. It’s well under 1% of global energy consumption right now and I don’t see that changing. Yes, it’s going up, but other things are going up too.
For example cars are getting bigger and heavier, which means they use more energy. More and more people around the world are heating/cooling their home to make it comfortable instead of just liveable - drastically increasing energy consumption. We build homes with concrete instead of timber. We’re using more and more concrete worldwide… and concrete makes up something like eight percent of global energy consumption now (and growing).
We need to produce more energy. There’s no way around it.
That’s where I can’t agree with you. I’d say we need to produce the same amount of energy while trying to have more efficient devices.
That’s also why I’m asking what AI could bring to humanity. If it brings us ways to save energy and have enough food for a growing population, then I’d consider it. But for now, from what I know, it’s just creating a new need when we are already consuming way too much and destroying our planet.
Instead of creating new needs, we should try to live with less, while still enjoying life.
Cars getting bigger and heavier is clearly true, but they are also consuming less (at least for ICE cars) than before. My Seat Leon Cupra is drinking way less fuel than my old Audi S4 Avant while being more spacious inside. I’m also sure that at one point we’re gonna start having smaller and more efficient electric cars because not everyone wants a huge SUV.
Seems like ai companies should take some of that investor cash and build up their own power supply. Maybe they can be the ones to use the small, modular nuclear power stations I’ve heard a little about. Or go bananas on solar and various energy storage solutions.
Anybody else notice the first graph goes from 2020 to 1996?
I guess that’s meant to be 2025 since the graph is projected? Pretty funky screw up though.
Maybe we can ask ai how to make more power so there can be more ai. But then, when it tells us, we just mine more crypto. Fuck ai. Crypto won’t murder us.
