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,”

  • @Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    I looked that up and it’s a fusion reactor, apparently, from what I can figure out from their nigh-illegible website.

    …[reads further] …

    It skips the steam cycle. That’s fucking cool. I really hope they get it working.

        • @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2•8 hours ago

          there’s lots of handwavy things. They even said they “discovered new physics” to explain some disappointing (perfectly predictable, by other established nuclear physicists) results. “Oh the physics equation was wrong, we just need to make everything 25% bigger”.

          Also, the emitted radiation levels will be insane once it’s scaled up