The API folks at OpenAI continue to do great work. You can just tell when developers have their act together. Felt the same way the first time I used Stripe. The latest improvement is vision models in the batch API (Twitter X link), which should eventually bring down my costs.
@aral Assuming you're being sarcastic, is he really that bad? I can't tell from the outside, other than rumors when the board shook everything up last year.
@manton Assuming you’re asking in good faith, are you aware of the criminal effects of the AI industry on the climate? The potential benefits of AI won’t ever compensate for the damage it’s doing physically to our world right now, with the technology in its infancy. Being a CEO and evangelist for the technology is only slightly less wrong than being the CEO of an oil company, at this point. Him being in this position is what you need to know in order to understand if he’s good or bad.
@manton totally agree with your assessment. Also, can you make it as easy to block/mute AI deniers here on micro.blog as it is on Bluesky??
@jhull How are you muting that on Bluesky? I need to catch up on what they're doing with moderation. Right now we just have basic keyword muting in Micro.blog.
@manton “we’ll see how it plays out”
How long are you planning to wait in order for AI to be a benefit for the world, climate-wise? And when I mean a benefit, I mean that it compensates its carbon emissions and its past emissions. And I’m not talking only about emissions linked to power generation, but also those linked to the manufacturing of the hardware. It’s one of the industries with the fastest growing climate footprint. I don’t see anything happening right now to mitigate it.
@manton I have a list called "AI-Deniers", when they fit that description I just add them to the list and never hear from them again. It's heaven. AI Deniers
@rom definitely. You can subscribe to it here: bsky.app/profile/d... hundreds and hundreds added since January :)
@manton If I understand correctly, energy consumption can be lowered considerably by tweaking the processing with minimal effect on the overall process. The main source of conspirative thinking seems to be lack of transparency, not telling us how green the AI companies really are. Also, I think that incorporating analog computing will be even more energy efficient, since data models don't need the high accuracy of power-hungry digital computers. The latter will take a while, and constraining power in hardware can be done right now, as well as sharing data on power consumption.
