The pre-industrial era

“It is not the case that ‘AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.’ The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit.” —⁦Eryk Salvaggio (Lurker: Murder me if I reply)⁩ techpolicy.press/challenging-th…

I think about this comic a lot. It applies to way more than the trolley problem.

OpenAI boiling a small lake to do simple things in the most complicated, energy intensive way possible. "This is a calculation that a modern assembly language can do in maybe four operations, but my guess is that o1 used…hundreds of trillions. Not counting the training costs."

In Memphis, Elon Musk’s xAI is skirting environmental rules and has at least 18 generators burning methane gas next to Black communities. It will eventually use 150MW of electricity — enough to power 100,00 homes — mainly to power the Grok chatbot. npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-…

Maybe that's why robot dogs are being built. "What would stop the guards [of the billionaire preppers] from eventually choosing their own leader?" theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/…

Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? theguardian.com/technology/202…

Help I’m genuinely invested in the Gordon Ramsey AI cooking series

Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe. Why is it so bad? This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally theguardian.com/technology/202…

ChatGPT won’t kill consulting because you don’t pay the consultants for the recommendation You pay them for the branded rubber stamp + political air-cover for the strategy you were going to implement in the first place

it’s funny that cyberlibertarians spent so much time worrying about government surveillance then private tech companies went ahead and build the most invasive and extensive surveillance apparatus we’ve ever known out of the thing the they promised would liberate us all

so proud of my student's book choices

The The New York Times just published one of the most unethical op-eds I've ever read. It tries to scare people into thinking we need massive new taxpayer spending on autonomous weapons. It's co-written by a venture capitalist who specializes in autonomous weapons companies.

the underlying premise here that assumes 'all AI is unequivocally good' is troubling to say the least

Scary thing Trump is also promoting a resurgence in coal plants to ‘fuel’ AI and crypto