What I don't think comes out of the article, or is more of a side note, is the carbon footprint and unnecessary resource consumption that results from the incre

What I don't think comes out of the article, or is more of a side note, is the carbon footprint and unnecessary resource consumption that results from the increased use of AI alone. Not all data centers are powered by renewable energy, and I don't see how Generative AI, the main consumer of electricity, is going to give us any meaningful suggestions on how to combat global warming instead of churning out regurgitated text, audio, and video. So if you're going to spend so much money developing AI, make sure that AI helps solve our most pressing man-made problem, not just makes it worse.