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Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 71 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to sustainable energy.

We already know how

[–] mutant_zz@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.

"We can use it to solve climate change!"

We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes doing that impossible.

And, no, AI can't "fix" politics. We're going to have to figure that out by ourselves.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Climate scientists: "do these things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"
AI developers: create AI
Climate scientists: "AI is drawing massive power accelerating climate change, we need to stop that"
Everyone: "but it can tell us how to fix climate change so it's going to be okay!"
AI climate model: "do these same things to fix climate change"
Everyone: "but that's HAAARD and I don't wanna!"

Yeah, I can't see any way this could possibly fail...

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

but now we have a scapegoat

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ai told my power company to tell us to stop using energy during the day beucase ai needs the power to do the power co.pqnies jobs

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Sure lets burn all the oil to figure out how to not burn all the oil.

[–] mutant_zz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.

"We can use it to solve climate change!"

We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes doing that impossible.

And, no, AI can't "fix" politics. We're going to have to figure that out by ourselves.