Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
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By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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      23 days ago

      You play too many video games if you think AI means Cortana. Computer scientists have been building artificial intelligence since the 1950s

      • then_three_more@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Algorithms and expert machines a weren’t and aren’t AI. Can’t say that I’ve ever played Halo so have no idea about that. This is Lemmy though, so you shouldn’t be surprised that I’ve watched most if Trek, read The Culture and the Asimov robot books.

        • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Expert machines are AI, genetic algorithms are AI, state machines are AI, and the perceptron was AI.

          That’s because AI stands for artificial intelligence, and all of those technologies are attempts to artificially produce intelligence.

          • msage@programming.devEnglish
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            22 days ago

            You are technically correct.

            But non-technical people assume AI to be AGI, which LLMs are not nor ever will be.

            • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
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              22 days ago

              That’s because non-technical people watch far more movies than computer science lectures. They think AI is that thing from the movies.

    • BJW@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Thanks, gatekeeper! Is margarine real butter? Is saccharine real sugar? Is Lemmy real Internet? Is baseball real sports?

      I bet it’s all marketing, all the way down. Nothing is real.