Generative AI is a climate disaster - eviltoast

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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    4 months ago

    I’m cheered that we now have so much wind and solar wanting to come online that it’s straining grid interconnects so countries (US and NL for example) suddenly have to spend a bundle on infra so that the power can get across continents to where it’s needed

    this is a very cool problem to have: oh no! we have too much new clean energy!

    it may not be sufficient, but it’s an excellent start