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"Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical "storefront" to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management (Ryan Daws/AI News)
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Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

UK deploys AI to boost Arctic security amid growing threats
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/uk-deploys-ai-to-boost-arctic-security-amid-growing-threats/?mid=1#cid=2874048

UK deploys AI to boost Arctic security amid growing threats
The UK is deploying AI to keep a watchful eye on Arctic security threats from hostile states amid growing geopolitical tensions.

"AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

AI-enhanced maps reveal hidden streams for restoration
A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The Hyper-Resolution Hydrography Data used to generate the new stream maps stems from a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), and the Chesapeake Conservancy (CC), including UMBC alumni at CBP and CC.

"AI tool trial could save equivalent of 1.5m meals in food waste"
#FoodWaste #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

"Air quality tests around xAI’s Memphis data center raise questions"
#AirQuality #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Air quality tests around xAI's Memphis data center raise questions | TechCrunch
A legal group is questioning why a key pollutant was omitted from air quality tests near xAI's data center.

Just published 🚀: Updates from BUILD 2025
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"Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars https://futurism.com/lawyer-zuckerberg-ai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=topic/artificial…

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars
A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, Meta is in huge trouble.

"AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer
New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators—ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy.

Just published 🚀: Solving for the last mile
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"Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.

"xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits"
#xAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

xAI is facing a lawsuit for operating over 400 MW of gas turbines without permits | TechCrunch
The Colossus data center was allegedly operating as many as 35 gas turbines without pollution controls in a region that already had poor air quality.

#AI poses a threat... that you trust in it too much, use it incorrectly and mess up your company, career or life. You're better off thinking of it as an artificial content generator than anything #intelligent.

The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

"AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution
AI is turning up the heat on datacentres, causing their water use to soar.

#AI poses a threat... that you trust in it too much, use it incorrectly and mess up your company, career or life. You're better off thinking of it as an artificial content generator than anything #intelligent.

"Nestlé UK&I tests AI system to cut food waste at factories"
#Nestle #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

"xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Techcnology #Climate

xAI data centre emits plumes of pollution, new video shows
A massive data centre at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to an environmental watchdog group.

"Tech giants lag on AI emissions disclosures, research finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate #ClimateChange

"Meta signs deal with nuclear plant to power AI and datacenters for 20 years"
#Meta #Facebook #AI #ArtificialIntelligence