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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.

So there's a thing in AI called MCP
As far as I can tell, it's literally absolutely no different from an API, except this way it can have the same initials as the main villain in Tron.
#ai #technology

"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.

Every bug a feature a bug.
(Nothing new but just sayin'.)
#technology #saying

"How your old phone could become a ‘tiny data centre’ helping researchers to track marine life"
#Ocean #Evironment #Technology

Old smartphones turned into ‘tiny data centres’ to track marine life
For just €8, researchers are turning old smartphones into devices capable of tracking marine life and buses.

@… good luck dealing with the NBN today Dropsey 🤞
#Peopling #Technology #NBN

Title: Will you EVER stand up for yourself?
Topics: #Jobs #WorkingClass #Technology
Channel: @…

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

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
"This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan."
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

When a WhatsApp message says "Forwarded many times", in India it often means the message has been forwarded (tens/hundreds of) millions of times. 😳
The speed and scale are both just mind numbing.
#technology #information

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

"Safe and easy ways to recycle electricals – and even get money for your old gadgets"
#Electronics #Technology #Recycling

I have a lot of cool pictures to share from hikes and such, but first I have some stylesheets with cascading speculations to fight, I mean write. 😟
#technology #webdev #programming #life #nerd

A large chunk of client JS code is just this over and over and over again. In case *I* removed a necessary element when *I* wasn't watching. 🤦‍♂️
```
const x = document.getElementById("X");
if (!x) {
console.error("X element not found.");
   return;
}
//later
alert("Check console.");
```
#technology #programming #JavaScript #defensiveProgramming

Any code segment is a 1-liner if you have composition. 🙄
#technology #programming #complexity #complicated #sarcasm

"Musk’s 'ChatGPT moment' may soon be here"
Not that ChatGPT is any sign of success, but this will probably be more like "CrashGPT" and "CollateralGPT". 😟
#Tesla #robotaxi #Musk #technology

Promises are a JavaScript programmer's way of saying "I promise you this code is complicated." 🤓
#technology #JavaScript #programming #nerd #joke #nerdJoke