People are falling in love with their chatbots. There are now dozens of apps that offer intimate companionship with an AI-powered bot, and they have millions of users. A recent survey of users found that 19% of Americans have interacted with an AI meant to simulate a romantic partner.
AI is ML that runs on a PowerPoint based stack as opposed to a CUDA one
I’ll be honest I don’t understand what you’re saying. My computer science knowledge is pretty limited (ironically still enough to make it clear that “AI” is a total scam and tech bro wish casting to eliminate labor).
I’m saying that the term ‘AI’ doesn’t explicitly refer to a defined set of technologies, but is rather a marketing term (hence PowerPoint based stack) to generate hype. ML refers to machine learning which is when a piece of software improves on what it does based on feedback. Reinforcement learning, image recognition/classification, anything transformer or neural net based, and large language models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Deepseek, Mistral, etc) fall into this set. There’s a lot of good and a genuine social need for ML, especially image classification, that doesn’t explicitly replace labor but instead augments it (think cancer recognition, early fire detection, automated photo sorting, real-time Blåhaj identification+tracking) and isn’t always that energy intensive. A lot of ML applications run using CUDA which is Nvidia’s tool to allow C++ code to run directly on GPUs.
Yeah this is what I hate. Hating ML itself is dumb because a tool is a tool. Of course under capitalism this tool will be used in a highly destructive way and already is (emissions for one). Same tired old story
The other thing that’s absent from the conversation surrounding LLM emissions is any talk about decarbonizing power grids. The campaign by capital to individualize climate responsibility and deny any systemic change has worked depressingly well.
Were basically at this stage with climate change and each new form of carbon emissions (for lack of a better word) will be easier to sell. I think everyone has basically given up on climate change. It’s the actual black pill. Not doomerism.
“AI will invent a way out of the climate crisis/ The benefits of AI will outweigh the harm of grerenhouse gas emissions”
I wish I was making up those responses, but that’s seriously what they think. OpenAI’s business model is even “wait for AI to give us a profitable business model”
Well you know what they say, you have to smash two thousand eggs to make a two egg omelette