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Heatwave is no joke... (lemmy.world)

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI has a negative impact on the environment today (because of energy use) but it could also result in breakthroughs in battery and power generation technology that enable us to overcome our energy problems. It's already having a huge impact with things like medicine and was a key component in recent advancements in fusion reactor design (which would be the thing that saves us from our energy problems).

It's not all LLM and image generation.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

but it could also

If the last 20 years has taught us anything, I think it should be to hold back on assuming that technology makes the world better without significant drawbacks.