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Power consumption before and after AI searches is the same as power consumption for monetary transactions before and after Bitcoin and the likes.
Both technologies suck donkey balls and still haven't done remotely what they've promised and have made everything net worse.
AI didnt replace cryptocurrency
Noone has claimed that.
He said power consumption was the same before and after AI, which implied that AI must have replaced something else, and he mentioned crypto. Guess. Ididnt understand him.