Given how much energy AI is gobbling up, with no end in sight, I wouldn’t take the bet that 2024 is the peak year for CO2 emissions. I’d love to be wrong.
Customer preferences: The rise of Artificial Intelligence in the global market has been fueled by a growing demand for personalized and efficient solutions. Consumers are increasingly looking for AI-driven products and services, such as virtual assistants and chatbots, to streamline their daily tasks and improve their overall experience.
Blatantly untrue, not a single person I speak to is glad that AI has been shoved into their products, or goes out of their way to use a product because of its AI integration.
But yeah, AI is going to kill any chance of climate recovery unless the bubble bursts soon
Hi, it’s me. I an beyond excited for what LLMs have achieved in just a few years, and use them daily. Why Google for info and deal with clickbait BS with novels of unrelated garbage when I can just get a straightforward answer from AI? It’s far from perfect, but it makes my workday 10x easier.
Well for one, the clickbait BS has become worse because of the LLMs :P I think its cool tech, don’t get me wrong. Before it started getting shoved into every product and before its environmental impact started skyrocketing, I was keenly interested in it. In all honesty, I still am, but I’m keenly interested in what happens with it after the bubble pops and the real use cases are left behind. Text summarisation and code prediction are two genuine use cases I’ve seen have tremendous success. But I don’t need an LLM built into every product I use, and I don’t need every product I use to be training LLMs.
How much CO2 does AI use compared to other industries? I know it’s a horrific use compared to all other software, but have no idea how it factors in global carbon emmissions?
Also, just to be clear, I’m genuinely curious and not defending burning huge amounts of carbon for profit if the AI sector is comparatively small. That kind of backwards “but it just a small amount of everything else” logic would be a great way to accelerate our already too fast death spiral.