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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. (www.technologyreview.com)

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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,,,"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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