🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'

3 July 2024 - kudos:

If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.