4 ms·
Isn't this why transit advocates try to reduce the need for owning a car though? I'm thinking a really good search engine would not make you reach for ai as of
by nemomarx 11mo ago
Isn't this why transit advocates try to reduce the need for owning a car though?
I'm thinking a really good search engine would not make you reach for ai as often and so could be eco friendly that way
- tybit 11mo agoYes, the greenest browser is one that doesn’t use AI. They aren’t claiming they’ve built that though, just the greenest AI.
- chongli 11mo agoI don't use AI though. Are they going to put automatic AI responses on the SERP? That's less green than simply not having AI on the SERP. Giving me something I do not want is wasteful by definition.
- simianwords 11mo agoI disagree. Without AI I might take 15 min to search for something in google that would have taken me a single prompt in ChatGPT. The energy used by my screen in those 15 minutes would be higher than the energy taken by that prompt.
- lukeschlather 11mo agoThere are fundamental reasons public transit is always more efficient than private cars. There's no fundamental reason a really good search engine is more efficient than an LLM or any other kind of AI.
- dented42 11mo agoThe sheer amount of linear algebra number crunching vs some database lookups is monumental. I don’t see how an LLM could ever be as efficient as a search engine.
- femiagbabiaka 11mo agoSearch engines aren't just some database lookups, is the thing. There's actually quite a bit of linear alegbra involved in both, for page ranking especially Anyways these sorts of comparisons make no sense to begin with, and quite obviously at the moment the worst actors cough xAI cough who are deploying massively polluting generators into residential neighborhoods are much worse than, say, Google Search
- Insanity 11mo agoWhen I took linear algebra at uni in 2012, one of the examples to show practical applications in our text book was the PageRank algorithm!
- mplewis 11mo agoMaybe because we all know that working search is better than an LLM hands down? What are you talking about? The only reason people go to LLMs instead of Google is because Google Search has been destroyed by Sundar Pichai.
- simianwords 11mo agoThis has to be satire. LLMs are a monumental jump on search engines. Imagine a hypothetical search competition and you are given Google and I am given ChatGPT. I’ll win every single time.