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AI is just another improvement in a long of human progress and they have all required more energy.

• forgetfreeman 3y ago
  That it is an improvement remains to be seen.
• AlexandrB 3y ago
  That's just not true. A lot of human progress has been about reducing energy inputs for doing the same thing. The simplest example is the steady increase in fuel efficiency since the 1950s.
  • kibwen 3y ago
    There are two kinds of progress: 1. Real progress, which involves doing more with the same amount of energy; in other words, an improvement in efficiency. 2. Fake progress, which involves doing more by bringing more energy to bear. Both feel like progress because you're "doing more", but only the first is valuable in the long-term. And so much of the technological progress of the past century has been fake progress that people fail to realize the distinction.
    • hnaccountme 3y ago
      Agreed, Most of AI is just investors spending money so they can sell their stock to someone else for a profit. Same this happened with blockchain. It will happen again with this AI boom. People just want to make a quick buck. Read value generation is hard