Seriously, could we just not do this? Consumer AI is like fast fashion for phones. Could we just use it for drug discovery and gene editing, maybe elephant translation, and call that enough?
I raised the energy demand query at a meeting a couple of weeks ago, given my company is rushing headlong into giving everyone access to MS Copilot. Despite the meeting being with multiple who earn a lot more than I do, nobody had even contemplated this aspect.
I've enjoyed having an iphone, but if the communications industry keeps going in this direction, my next phone will be a flip phone that *might* be capable of SMS.
It does seem like every tech product is increasingly and desperately having loads of superfluous and mostly-useless AI froth added to it. I think a lot is more to excite investors than please customers.
The ghost of clippy lives onππ±