I’m not sure if this is intended to be a joke, but the primary reason there’s “AI Water usage” is that it seems to be a straightforward way to cool territorial data centers. The data centers that Elon Musk wants to put into orbit don’t use any water. If you have a Dyson sphere that power a giant AI datacenter I would expect it not to have any water usage either.
I predict that the AIs will actually consume a trillion times the water in Earth’s oceans.
The OP is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but it gets at a real peeve of mine. Whenever AI safety guys write op-eds about how silly the environmentalists are, they should add to the beginning, middle, and end of the article something like:
“I think that within 20 years, AI alone will be consuming more energy than the entirety of human civilisation consumes today. Its effects on the environment will be more transformative than the agricultural or industrial revolutions. It may result in the extinction of all organic life.”
And then they can chuckle about how the environmentalist did statistics bad or whatever.
I’m not sure if this is intended to be a joke, but the primary reason there’s “AI Water usage” is that it seems to be a straightforward way to cool territorial data centers. The data centers that Elon Musk wants to put into orbit don’t use any water. If you have a Dyson sphere that power a giant AI datacenter I would expect it not to have any water usage either.
I predict that the AIs will actually consume a trillion times the water in Earth’s oceans.
The OP is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but it gets at a real peeve of mine. Whenever AI safety guys write op-eds about how silly the environmentalists are, they should add to the beginning, middle, and end of the article something like:
“I think that within 20 years, AI alone will be consuming more energy than the entirety of human civilisation consumes today. Its effects on the environment will be more transformative than the agricultural or industrial revolutions. It may result in the extinction of all organic life.”
And then they can chuckle about how the environmentalist did statistics bad or whatever.