Board_hunter567 posted...
The environmental issues seem a bit overblown though, IMO. I'm not denying that it uses a lot of electricity but so do lots of things. It's mainly the training that's the most hungry, generation isn't much more intensive than 3D rendering or playing a video game. I also don't want to hear about environmental impact when untold amounts of resources are used and plastic waste generated annually because millions of people need to have physical copies of the latest EA FC.
Not overblown, but I don't particularly like the criticism because it doesn't really dig at the main issue.
Let's say we actually fix our energy infrastructure and start implementing clean energy at a greater force, and we actually have reliable abundant clean energy. Would AI
then
be alright?
Like, the energy usage criticism is essentially a temporary* criticism of AI is my point.
*Assuming we can actually implement the clean energy tech that we have