New blog post: Optimal automation

https://ar.al/2024/10/16/optimal-automation/

This has been on my mind quite a bit recently so I just wrote a little something about it.

#optimalAutomation #automation #technology #economics #society #AI #LLMs #selfDrivingCars #capitalism #growth #degrowth #climateChange #BigTech #postCapitalism

AI / LLMs are killing our world, please don't use them. 🙏

"...global (data centre) greenhouse emissions between now and the end of the decade are likely to be three times higher than if generative AI had not been developed."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/ai_datacenters_coal/

#LLM #LLMs #AI #AIs #Environment #CO2 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating

AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright

So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels

^{Dan Robinson (The Register)}

It's really effing obvious LLMs are a con trick:

If LLMs were actually intelligent, they would be able to just learn from each other and would get better all the time. But what actually happens if LLMs only learn from each other is their models collapse and they start spouting gibberish.

LLMs depend entirely on copying what humans write because they have no ability to create anything themselves. That's why they collapse when you remove their access to humans.

There is no intelligence in LLMs, it's just repackaging what humans have written without their permission. It's stolen human labour.

#LLM #LLMs #AI #AIs #ChatGPT