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,”

    • enkers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Unless you’re in comp sci, and AI is a field, not a marketing term. And in that case everyone already knows that’s not “it”.