I really enjoyed this TED Talk from a sharp and witty AI developer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdVDhOGqoE
or...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sasha_luccioni_ai_is_dangerous_but_not_for_the_reasons_you_think
Before viewing this short video, I hadn't really thought about the energy costs of running AI.
Now I know.
It is, in a word, "Massive"!
Which leads me to this next musing:
In spite of AI's voracious energy consumption - oftentimes, just for the sake of trivia, there have been no public "Bitcoin-Style, Energy Bashings", no door-to-door, pitch fork wielding "AI Carbon Footprint Lynch Mobs" and no "Save the Children, Reduce ChatBot Queries" campaigns; yupper, all visibly absent.
Or maybe having a personal ChatBot for each person (who can afford it) justifies the energy black hole known as the next "AI specifically engineered to save you one click per day".
And what about the frantic "AI Arms Race" by Big Tech?
Look around.
Billionaires, int'l corporations, nation-state funded entities and even fringe hacker groups are all racing to get in on the "Great AI Land Grab".
...and with no real oversight from humanity-centric experts, not tech smart entrepreneurs, I think chaos and catastrophe is inevitable.
Submitted FYI.
May you and yours be well and loving life today.
In Lak'ech, JaiChai
