@kde@kde I'm legitimately getting annoyed by the widespread obsession with AI as it's not being used for the betterment of society. The original purpose of ChromeOS was to breath life into old laptops. That pledge comes from us all; slashing greenhouse gasses is done by using open-source OS's on older computers. Not new computers, but ones we already have.
Old vs. new hardware is difficult. New hardware can also do the same with lower energy consumption.
It’s impossible to calculate, but the tipping point would be where the saved energy surpasses the energy needed for producing and transporting the hardware.
I’m quite sure that my raspi4 is more powerful, smaller, less noisy and requires less energy than my oldest computer.
The thing is just that they rarely only improve the efficiency.
In a sense maybe it’s a good thing this big AI hype is here so prematurely. People will misuse it and rely too heavily on it, and it will fuck everything up, since it can’t really do what these execs and the media want to claim it can do. So it will fuck up and hopefully people will learn from that. And we can start seeing products advertised as AI free.
And then when AI finally does get to the point where it is capable of doing these amazing things, we will be more careful at that time. Maybe. Hopefully.
Climate was only cool while you could buy fake carbon credits to make up lies about responsible computing at scale. Now we save the world with AI once again. Next year, compute on mars, true planetary scale! Cloud? We’re doing Starsystem now!
You forgot quantum! We’re developing super duper plants that suck the carbon out of the atmosphere harder than a crack whore and make everything great for everyone (with money)!!!
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