• gencha@lemm.ee
    66·
    7 months ago

    Climate was only cool while you could buy fake carbon credits to make up lies about responsible computing at scale. Now we save the world with AI once again. Next year, compute on mars, true planetary scale! Cloud? We’re doing Starsystem now!

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    32·
    7 months ago

    pledges coming from any capitalist for-profit company mean nothing.

    unless the pledge is cutting costs or making line go up or laying off a third of your employees.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      They just need “unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it” appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      In a sense maybe it’s a good thing this big AI hype is here so prematurely. People will misuse it and rely too heavily on it, and it will fuck everything up, since it can’t really do what these execs and the media want to claim it can do. So it will fuck up and hopefully people will learn from that. And we can start seeing products advertised as AI free.

      And then when AI finally does get to the point where it is capable of doing these amazing things, we will be more careful at that time. Maybe. Hopefully.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    7·
    7 months ago

    But hey, they’re still good, they have that green leaf in their windows settings. They’re good, right?

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      It’s not. It’s obliged to work in the shareholders’ interests. That can mean many things.

      The board just chooses to take a narrow interpretation of those interests.

  • Cure Maple@meow.lgbt
    72·
    7 months ago

    @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’m legitimately getting annoyed by the widespread obsession with AI as it’s not being used for the betterment of society. The original purpose of ChromeOS was to breath life into old laptops. That pledge comes from us all; slashing greenhouse gasses is done by using open-source OS’s on older computers. Not new computers, but ones we already have.

    • BaŝtoEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Old vs. new hardware is difficult. New hardware can also do the same with lower energy consumption.

      It’s impossible to calculate, but the tipping point would be where the saved energy surpasses the energy needed for producing and transporting the hardware.

      I’m quite sure that my raspi4 is more powerful, smaller, less noisy and requires less energy than my oldest computer.

      The thing is just that they rarely only improve the efficiency.

      • Cure Maple@meow.lgbt
        1·
        7 months ago

        @basxto You have a really good point. I’m also thinking of the fact that you can’t buy a laptop without buying a proprietary OS, or at least as most people think. Yeah, Framework and System76, but you can’t walk to your local market and get one of those.

        It’s true that newer hardware is more energy efficient, but I think it’s better to use whatever hardware you have through it’s full lifetime before getting a newer one. It’s best to get new only when you really need it.