I was glad to hear you bring up in this episode the very real cost of this A.I. tech boom. Nvidia stock has risen dramatically since A.I. investments ramped up, but those chips require rare earth metals and large amounts of water to mine. Data centers need cooling, and are often put in places that are already water stressed (I'm looking at you, Arizona). I also appreciated the comparison of A.I. to religion. As if we have to give ourselves to a higher intelligence, whether machine or omnipotent being, to save us.
Ed Zitron has been providing some persuasive arguments that the A.I. bubble may be the next one to burst, and it may happen sooner than we think. A big driver for this seems to be that they are still a long way from a model that profitable when it comes to A.I. My personal thoughts on capitalism aside, firms won't keep investing in a product without a return.
Continued: Even more of a taboo than 'systemic reform' (which would still imply global reform) is REAL decentralisation which would entail decoupling from globalisation so that every locality can sort out their own crises rather than having to comply with globally imposed solutions defined and imposed by decision making centres within the Global North.
A few thoughts: Is it not the case that a climate crisis is NEEDED (i.e. manufactured) to justify a systems change that entails implementing A.I. and robotics for an optimised energy transition, because without a climate crisis there would be no need to implement A.I. at scale along with renewable energies in order to urgently 'save the planet'.
I was glad to hear you bring up in this episode the very real cost of this A.I. tech boom. Nvidia stock has risen dramatically since A.I. investments ramped up, but those chips require rare earth metals and large amounts of water to mine. Data centers need cooling, and are often put in places that are already water stressed (I'm looking at you, Arizona). I also appreciated the comparison of A.I. to religion. As if we have to give ourselves to a higher intelligence, whether machine or omnipotent being, to save us.
Ed Zitron has been providing some persuasive arguments that the A.I. bubble may be the next one to burst, and it may happen sooner than we think. A big driver for this seems to be that they are still a long way from a model that profitable when it comes to A.I. My personal thoughts on capitalism aside, firms won't keep investing in a product without a return.
Continued: Even more of a taboo than 'systemic reform' (which would still imply global reform) is REAL decentralisation which would entail decoupling from globalisation so that every locality can sort out their own crises rather than having to comply with globally imposed solutions defined and imposed by decision making centres within the Global North.
A few thoughts: Is it not the case that a climate crisis is NEEDED (i.e. manufactured) to justify a systems change that entails implementing A.I. and robotics for an optimised energy transition, because without a climate crisis there would be no need to implement A.I. at scale along with renewable energies in order to urgently 'save the planet'.