|
Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social |
Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social
30 replies 509 reposts 804 likes
|
Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson
@hilaryrosed.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Does anyone have a gift link they could share? Would love to read this!
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Odie
@theodeity.bsky.social
[ View ] |
😱
1 replies 4 reposts 33 likes
|
Silly Rookie
@sillyrookie.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So sustainable and a useful expenditure. 🙄
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
rifka the unhinged fat activist
@rifka.bsky.social
[ View ] |
📌
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
The Fresh Prince of Donair
@erisianrite.com
[ View ] |
It seems like an article from Scientific American shouldn’t be conflating “training” with “use,” like it does when it misrepresents the study on BLOOM. And yet
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
C.V. Danes
@cvdanes.bsky.social
[ View ] |
If you need terabytes of data and more energy than the world's fourth largest economy to create a chatty, half-assed assistant that would probably be fired on the first day if human, the problem is not the data. The problem is the design.
0 replies 3 reposts 31 likes
|
Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's as if the developers have forgotten that humans have brains - or else they want people to forget that they have brains.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Ross Originals
@rossoriginals.bsky.social
[ View ] |
For a response that's usually wrong! Wow, really worth it.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
🏳️⚧️ Minority Report from my Right Boob 🏳️⚧️
@rowenagold.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Critical thinking skills require recalling the ongoing interaction. AI always restarts from zero with each interaction. Ergo no critical thinking skills in AI. Boondoggles have more substance.
0 replies 0 reposts 6 likes
|
Markus Sitzmann
@markussitzmann.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Greetings from the Blockchain.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Joé McKen
@joemcken.net
[ View ] |
I still maintain that generative AI, in and of itself, is a tool with many legitimate uses. But it’s downright maddening how every major company that offers it insists on speedrunning through all the worst and most destructive ways to use it.
0 replies 1 reposts 2 likes
|
Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
[ View ] |
📌
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
[ View ] |
And it’s crap
0 replies 0 reposts 10 likes
|
dutchtreat - F the NYT
@dutchtreat.bsky.social
[ View ] |
And how much energy will it take to actually provide *correct* answers?
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
Chad Levinson
@chadlevinson.com
[ View ] |
Increased efficiency never seems to reduce aggregate resource use. We just get more people driving faster hybrid pickup trucks at 22mpg.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Paul N
@paulnuk.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I read that article and just uninstalled Google Gemini
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
Howdoyousaythat, BBQ
@triagenursemd.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Killing the environment one incredibly dogshit search response at a time
1 replies 2 reposts 99 likes
|
@redwinterwolf.bsky.social
[ View ] |
It's going to be a moral and necessary obligation for people to take hammers and water (hah) to this shit soon. Fucksakes...
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Lauren 💜🖤🤍👻 Solinger
@lornrocks.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Man between crypto and now this, these tech bros see zero problems in speed running environmental damage huh?
0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes
|
Reid Walley
@reidwalley.bsky.social
[ View ] |
We need MOAR energy usage in order to get to a Kardashev Type I civilization. Energy usage is good!
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
emerika
@emerika.bsky.social
[ View ] |
They may be doing this, but 'must' they do this? No. Optimizations come later. To be clear, I'm not an advocate for AI. But facts...
1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes
|
Bill Stewart
@billstewart.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Takes a lot more energy to come up with a result like "put glue in your pizza" than to just find and report popular pizza recipes.
1 replies 0 reposts 8 likes
|
|
Toonwatcher
@toonwatcher.bsky.social
[ View ] |
That’s a lot of power for the dumbest answers possible.
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
redstormpopcorn
@wasteof.technology
[ View ] |
boiling the oceans to get wrong answers, it's fucking Bitcoin all over again
0 replies 1 reposts 17 likes
|
Hemlock Autumn
@hemlockautumn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Example 975168971353 why using AI in a search engine is a spectacularly daft idea.
0 replies 0 reposts 11 likes
|
|
Hemlock Autumn
@hemlockautumn.bsky.social
[ View ] |
So... Stupid...
0 replies 0 reposts 24 likes
|
onisillos
@onisillos.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Unnovation has now moved into the realms of being a genuine hazard.
0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes
|
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
[ View ] |
📌
0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes
|
Erik Hoffner
@erikhoffner.bsky.social
[ View ] |
Scholars call BS on LLMs like “Applications of large language models (LLMs) have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations” "We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit”
0 replies 0 reposts 4 likes
|
Justin Buist
@justinbuist.bsky.social
[ View ] |
I wonder how a 1998 query's energy use, with far less efficient machines not architected specifically for page rank, compares to that 30x number. Because the old page rank should have gotten cheaper/efficient with GPUs.
0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes