I am not yet aware of an AI that is able to straight up remove hours out of a timeline. Time goes by pretty fast recently though, maybe AI is the reason?
[put my hand up]. I recently had to/wanted to convert my lecture slides from latex-beamer/lyx into html/reveal.js. I did a couple of slides per hand, and then asked AI to convert the rest, following my example. Saved me hours of tedious and boring work.
Don’t know why this is downvoted. AI helps in productivity in many places so it is definitely a fair point.
I run searches that otherwise would take 15 min in google. The energy to power the monitor for that much time itself is higher than one prompt that solved my search query.
Because it's wrong. AI doesn't save any CO2 or hours.
> AI helps in productivity in many places so it is definitely a fair point.
The productivity per hours might be higher, but the CO2 per hours is also higher, per definition. This isn't about productivity though, OP talked about CO2 emissions, and they can only rise, per capitalism's definition. If any company owner says "Okay we're doing a workday's work in an hour now, so now we'll just leave the office after one hour", then yes, we may save CO2. But this is not what's happening.
The hours still go by as fast as before, but instead of only having working humans, we have additional data centers that pollute the air.
In comparison to effectiveness, AI may (or may not, I saw studies that suggested otherwise) may reduce the CO2/LoC cost, but saying "AI saves CO2" is just entirely wrong and a misconception. It adds a massive amount of CO2. The rich people running the companies only earn money a little more faster than before.
> I run searches that otherwise would take 15 min in google. The energy to power the monitor for that much time itself is higher than one prompt that solved my search query.
But the time didn't go away. You consumed more energy in a smaller timeframe, but the rest of the 15 mins that you "saved" didn't go away. You probably did something else in there. So it just added CO2.
I am not yet aware of an AI that is able to straight up remove hours out of a timeline. Time goes by pretty fast recently though, maybe AI is the reason?
[put my hand up]. I recently had to/wanted to convert my lecture slides from latex-beamer/lyx into html/reveal.js. I did a couple of slides per hand, and then asked AI to convert the rest, following my example. Saved me hours of tedious and boring work.
Don’t know why this is downvoted. AI helps in productivity in many places so it is definitely a fair point.
I run searches that otherwise would take 15 min in google. The energy to power the monitor for that much time itself is higher than one prompt that solved my search query.
Because it's wrong. AI doesn't save any CO2 or hours.
> AI helps in productivity in many places so it is definitely a fair point.
The productivity per hours might be higher, but the CO2 per hours is also higher, per definition. This isn't about productivity though, OP talked about CO2 emissions, and they can only rise, per capitalism's definition. If any company owner says "Okay we're doing a workday's work in an hour now, so now we'll just leave the office after one hour", then yes, we may save CO2. But this is not what's happening.
The hours still go by as fast as before, but instead of only having working humans, we have additional data centers that pollute the air.
In comparison to effectiveness, AI may (or may not, I saw studies that suggested otherwise) may reduce the CO2/LoC cost, but saying "AI saves CO2" is just entirely wrong and a misconception. It adds a massive amount of CO2. The rich people running the companies only earn money a little more faster than before.
> I run searches that otherwise would take 15 min in google. The energy to power the monitor for that much time itself is higher than one prompt that solved my search query.
But the time didn't go away. You consumed more energy in a smaller timeframe, but the rest of the 15 mins that you "saved" didn't go away. You probably did something else in there. So it just added CO2.
weak understanding of economics