The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.

“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        For example? Citations?

        Pretty sure these “tasks” are meaningless metrics made up by pseudo-scientific grifters.

        • IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          1 month ago

          AlphaFold 3 which can help in the prediction of some proteins. Although it has some limitations, it cannot be used in all cases, only in what it can perform without any problem.