Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, so

Imagine paying an unholy amount of money to actively fuck everyone over, including yourself, especially yourself like holy shit...

What is it with big companies and desperately wanting to go under? It's like they're taking "too big to fail" as a challenges, the only rule being you can't just shutdown or sell.

the important thing is that they're an inch closer to inventing me, the acausal robot god, and every second I exist is another 10^27 rationalists tortured.

Your all just not seeing the bright side. It's also replacing well-paying jobs in the arts, the literary world, and in marketing.

Who wouldn't want AI to take over all of those things?

Hey now, give humans some credit. I'm sure we could've missed our climate goals without AI's help.

there’s this type of reply guy on fedi lately who does the “well actually querying LLMs only happens in bursts and training is much more efficient than you’d think and nvidia says their gpus are energy-efficient” thing whenever the topic comes up

and meanwhile a bunch of major companies have violated their climate pledges and say it’s due to AI, they’re planning power plants specifically for data centers expanded for the push into AI, and large GPUs are notoriously the part of a computer that consumes the most power and emits a ton of heat (which notoriously has to be cooled in a way that wastes and pollutes a fuckton of clean water)

but the companies don’t publish smoking gun energy usage statistics on LLMs and generative AI specifically so who can say

Boiling the oceans to make scamcoins and deepfake porn.

A: “Why are you knitting so fast? You in a rush?” B: “I’m almost out of yarn, gotta get this sweater done before it runs out”

These fucking nerds are all so hot to create the first real life Marvel's Iron Man's JARVIS that they're willing to burn the planet down to get there.

Half of them believe that the super smart AI they build will solve the energy problem for them, they just have to somehow build it first.

Just the astounding outright hubris of it all.

When it comes to looking up information, I no longer rely on Google. AI does exactly what I need it to, sometimes I have to rephrase my question, worst case.