#sustainable AI

[josephkravis]

The Future of AI: A Symphony of Progress for Humanity

AI transforms healthcare, education, and the environment. Discover how humans and technology collaborate for a smarter, more sustainable future.

What’s On My Mind Today? As the sun rises on a new era of technological advancement, the concept of What’s On My Mind Today? AI is no longer just an idea from science fiction; it’s shaping our world in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. From medicine to education, environmental conservation to creative expression, the possibilities seem endless. But this isn’t just about…

[chimerarachnid]

A messaging app or social media platform that uses crowdfunding. Its algorithm doesn't rely on rage baiting.

It fact checks information as you type and will correct false information for all users if submitted. It uses AI but it's updated frequently and doesn't consume valuable resources to run or manage systems. It's sustainable, ethical, and cuts down immensely on misinformation and propaganda.

[linda0609barron]

Sustainable Framework: How can Organizations Make Generative AI Green?

Explore how organizations can implement sustainable practices in generative AI technologies. This blog from SG Analytics discusses frameworks and strategies to make AI initiatives more environmentally friendly, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint associated with AI development and deployment. Read more : https://us.sganalytics.com/blog/sustainable-framework-how-can-organizations-make-generative-AI-green/

[aitalksblog]

Ethical AI: The Foundation for a Brighter Digital Future

(Images made by author with Leonardo Ai) The increasing use of AI systems in everyday life raises a host of ethical questions and challenges, such as bias, privacy, and transparency. This blog post examines the concept of ethical AI, synthesizing crucial insights from recent research and guidelines. By embracing an ethical framework that takes these guidelines into account, AI stakeholders can…

[tempestaurora]

is it worth using AI when it harms our planet?

sources:

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-energy-emergency-heres-how-much-electricity-openai-and-others-are-sucking-up-per-week

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/a-new-report-reveals-that-chatgpt-exorbitantly-consumes-electricity

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/18/2024/ai-energy-demand-raises-risk-of-blackouts-across-the-us

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/

[inner-memoirs]

There has got to be nothing more soul-sucking and devoid of humanity than being a "money minded" individual. If all you care about is profit, you immediately lose sight of morality.

Why is it considered immoral for a poor person to refuse to work themselves to the bone, but it's not immoral for the wealthy to squeeze desperate people of every penny they have in order to hoard incomprehensible amounts of money?

Why are the poorest people expected to never treat themselves to a nice meal or something they want, while the ultra rich eat gold and take 15 minute private jet flights guilt-free?

Why are there income caps on how much money a disabled person can save, but not how much money a billionaire can have?

Why is it okay to value a dollar more than a real life human being getting food, clean water, healthcare, and shelter?

How are poor people the selfish ones, when our planet is poisoned and destroyed by megacorps in the name of what's profitable?

Even the most basic expressions of human emotion and experiences are being gutted and replaced by hollow machinations because it's cheaper than paying a real artist, writer, developer, or creative to do the job.

We have enough resources for everyone on this earth to have a decent lifestyle, yet when we ask for the bare minimum we get a finger wagged in our face and told not to ask for too much.

It's maddening.

[finalacts]

something i've been thinking about with pluto is how the core three--ai, oom, and may--all have prescribed "roles" in their tangled mess of a relationship and how that has made it incredibly difficult for each character to see themselves and each other as People outside of those roles. this is where i think their core miscommunication happens, because it's not that the characters don't talk, it's more that they are constantly talking at or past each other, not to.

aioon and oaboom are obvious--aioon's the dutiful older sister, selfless to the point of being self-sacrificial, and oaboom's the overshadowed younger sister, precious only because her "weakness"** requires more attention. for aioon, moving forward is going to look like figuring out how to be a good sister/granddaughter without giving up her sense of self, and learning that these two things are actually one and the same--as we've seen, every time she sacrifices her happiness for what she thinks others want from her, it actually comes back to bite her in the ass. for oaboom, it's unlearning the belief that she is a burden because of her illness and learning that her ability to be loved is innate and does/should not need to be externally validated. for them both, it's going to include forgiving themselves and each other for their parents' deaths and all of the childhood hurts that ensued.

may is a little trickier to figure out, and i think i've settled on hers being that her identity and worldview--her role, literally--is almost entirely defined by that first interaction (one that aioon doesn't even remember, mind you). not only is attaching your entire sense of self to someone else's love for you just unhealthy in general, i actually think she spends quite a significant portion of the series unable to see aioon in her entirety because of it (not to mention how it basically caused the mess that was her relationship with oom). to her, aioon is still that teenage girl who showed her she was worth fighting for and how to fight--she's her savior. may's attachment to aioon is all encompassing, and it is devastating. it's why may keeps making aioon promise to choose her over everything else, not realizing that aioon (as she is now) would never be able to deliver. it's why her manipulations (lovebombing aioon every time she tries to tell her the truth or leave) ultimately don't work--aioon is not driven by love the same way she is. for aioon, that first meeting is inconsequential. it's not her lifeforce the way it is may's.

given all of this and the breakup at the end of ep 11, i think the only way forward for may is to figure out who she is outside of aioon--specifically, outside of this need to be loved by aioon. who is may as a person, an attorney, a cousin, a friend, when she doesn't have aioon guiding her (physically or otherwise)? personally, it's the only way i can see their relationship balancing out: may needs to have other things driving her the way aioon is driven by her family and friends, or else they'll just end up back where they started--with aioon leaving and may devastated.

ideally, their reunion would look something like aioon, the writer, meets metavee, the attorney, rather than aioon, may's first love, (re)meets may, aioon's twin sister's ex. a core theme in pluto is how our fixation on the past makes us unable to move forward, and how we should learn from our mistakes but not be haunted and bogged down by them. what aioon and may need is a fresh start, a chance to build upon new foundation, and i hope the ep 11 >> ep 12 time jump gives them that.

**just a quick aside mostly for myself to say that oaboom being canonically chronically ill is very interesting to me!! and i will be letting the thoughts abt that and how disability in general plays out in pluto percolate some more

[xanderisrotting]

The absolute irony

Nothing say’s eco friendly like an ai generated image posted as an ad touting  the benefits of an eco friendly lifestyle

[cyle]

I know you're on paternity leave so feel free to ignore this if you don't want to think about it, but has there been any progress on open-sourcing Tumblr's front-end? Inquiring minds would like to know

i hadn’t seen any progress on it before i left. there’s a strong willingness to do it, it’s just a big task to get it open-source-able in a sustainable way. a lot of our CI/CD processes rely on stuff that would need to be rebuilt from scratch, i think. totally doable, just not a priority.

but maybe there’s been progress since i left, i dunno! 🤞

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Story idea: a Young Priest and an Old Priest team up to defeat a Demon; but the Demon is an Evil A.I., the Young Priest is an IT Guy, and the Old Priest is an Electrician.

[wolveria]

I work at a sustainability company, and they recently announced internally that they want to start using AI for some of the entry level positions. When rightfully asked by employees how they’re going to offset the massive usage of resources used to power AI, they didn’t have a good answer.

So, that’s how that’s going.

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

on my knees BEGGING people to stop using AI. data centres already use more energy than dublin and galway combined and you know what needs data centres, and more of them? AI! they've caused power outages in local communities and use over a fifth of ireland's energy, and you know what's a really easy way to stop new data centres being built? to stop using AI and increasing demand on those data centres

[moonfirebrides]

WASTE COUTURE by Marten Kuipers Fast fashion may be trendy, but the plastic waste it generates is not. Let's break the cycle and opt for sustainable choices to reduce our impact on the environment. This is a collaboration between me and Jana V. using Midjourney and ChatGPT.

[kindahoping4forever]

I have yet to move on thanks

[tempestaurora]

is it worth using AI when it harms our planet?

sources:

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt-energy-emergency-heres-how-much-electricity-openai-and-others-are-sucking-up-per-week

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/a-new-report-reveals-that-chatgpt-exorbitantly-consumes-electricity

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/18/2024/ai-energy-demand-raises-risk-of-blackouts-across-the-us

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/

[realist-shit-just-happened]

Here's a fun idea: how about we don't replace the writers who bring the humanity and art to the media we consume with ai, we instead replace the company executives with ai. Think about it, who could possibly calculate financial and market indicators better than a computer? Or analyze demographic markets or the financial efficacy or a project? Then the company doesn't have to pay the executives, the robot recognizes that keeping the writers, actors and production crew well paid is better for the company in the long run and everyone gets a raise. The only people who suffer are the billionaires who have hoarded more than enough money over the years to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Win-win-win.