Generative AI is a Climate Disaster w/ Sasha Luccioni - Tech Won’t Save Us
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The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

  • @lmaydevEnglish
    16•2 months ago

    Since we aren’t using those it is in fact a climate disaster currently and they know that.

    Assuming you want to ground your argument in our reality.

    • BlackLaZoR
      -4•2 months ago

      Some energy sources are and some arent polluting. Do you suggest I should audit every single one of these companies on how they power stuff?

      I don’t even know if development of AI is productive or not, maybe it just consumes electricity, or maybe in the future AI will build energy sources that will sustain humanity for ever.