we do a lot of things for no benefit. video games, golf, horse racing, grilling… all those have far larger carbon footprints. as someone else said, focus on the actual negatives of generative ai, like the proven cognitive decline and loneliness.
they list the others in the article.
“using” water tends to mean that it needs to be processed to be usable again. you “use” water by drinking it, or showering, or boiling pasta too.
idk if that’s the intended takeaway from those numbers.
According to AllAboutAI analysis, global AI processing generates over 260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone, equivalent to 260 transatlantic flights, with 1 billion daily queries consuming 300 MWh of electricity.
according to the faa there are on average 5500 planes in the air every day, and while i couldn’t find an exact number there seem to be between 350 and 1 200 transatlantic flights every day, depending on season.
260 tons is still massive, but let’s not kid ourselves. it’s about equivalent to producing 12 new american-size cars.
oh hey it’s graham annable! i recognise the noses from “nelson tethers - puzzle agent”
go outside sometime
oh hey an actual joke in programmer_humor, let’s check the comments
gleam feels cozy.
malbolge is a programming language
joke’s on you i don’t believe in souls
tcl is pretty fun actually, it’s like bash on steroids.
for a preview of the insanity: anything surrounded by "" is a string, with the variable expansion you’d expect. anything surrounded by {} is also a string, but with no expansion. the equivalent in bash is the backtick string. but you don’t need to know that to write tcl. if you approach {} as “code blocks” like in other languages, it just works. reason being that tcl evals everything, constantly, attaching little tags to strings that tells the language how things are used, like “this string is an integer” or “this string is code and here is the result from last time it ran”. it’s madness and, weirdly, robust as hell. Xilinx writes all their tooling in tcl. SQLite started life as a tcl module, and it’s still the only api that is not provided by a plugin.
having used swing and modern js, i still prefer tk.
some of you have never programmed in tcl and it shows
the “cancer problem” wrt asbestos is that when it breaks it forms microscopic airborne needles that travel into your lungs and turn them into scar tissue. i don’t really see a solution to that. it’s like radon; it’s always a risk having it around.
“web3” and “ai” on the front page.
blockchains have some use cases. “web3” is not it.
yeah personally i’m fine with chronological feeds and wouldn’t want an algorithm.
in the comment i replied to you only mention that there’s no benefit, and you replied to me talking about carbon footprint.