TheeBoneDaddy: Look, we understand your need to defend the shit industry nobody wants but you've apparently built your life around.

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

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2% of global electricity usage is NOT 2% of global energy usage. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/glob...

Look, we understand your need to defend the shit industry nobody wants but you've apparently built your life around.

It might be worth getting your criticisms right, amigo.

So you don't have a PhD in artificial intelligence?

I want people to go after AI for the bullshit God complex its proponents have, for the insane concentration of power, for the overselling and underdelivering, and for the insane libertarianism that is driving the whole industry from the top. Being wrong will only weaken the argument.

I'd like to apologize for the use of stigmatizing language here. We are learning to be better, and I certainly am not there yet. Please retweet the following tweet which says the same ideas but more clearly.

I want people to go after AI for the bullshit God complex its proponents have, for the ridiculous concentration of power, for the overselling and underdelivering, and for the toxic libertarianism that is driving the whole industry from the top. Being wrong will only weaken the argument.

I appreciate your position now. My apologies. Maybe the electric distinction sounds a little nitpicky though. Just a little.

Energy is not actually a good argument against AI. We probably can't make enough chips to make it a good argument: we sure won't for the next few years. We'd need an enormous buildout of semiconductor fabrication facilities, and that's not happening. Even the energy sector's buying into the hype.

If not because energy how about because bullshit? "LLMs have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations” "We argue that these falsehoods [are] better understood as *bullshit* in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)"

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

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