The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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,”

  • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    What stone did you live under? The huge power consumption of crypto was often debated. You just don’t hear too much about it because people don’t really talk about crypto much anymore. Now it’s mostly just people pro crypto who discuss it. And obviously they tend to talk leas about the downsides.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      22 hours ago

      Eh, that enormous energy consumption hasn’t change, y’know. For Bitcoin, for example, the basic concept is still that ALL wallets have to process ALL transactions, which scales as well as studfing a walrus in a mini Cooper. Bitcoin is extremely energy inefficient and is simply not a good replacement for transactions for the entire world.

      Same goes for all other block chain technologies, they’re fundamentally flawed and won’t ever be good. If you want a good alternative to visa and MasterCard, you’ll need something fundamentally different from blockchain tech.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      … Oh, so so the terawatts of power wasted is no longer a problem because people don’t really speak of it anymore and cryptobros tried to debate it.

      If I’m living under a stone, you’re straight up stoned.