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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All to do what? Write emails and generate mediocre pictures?

The usefulness of AI currently is not much better than predictive text.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh it's far more useful than that. It's the shiny new thing that's going to make a lot of money for shareholders

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Only if they have a killer app that people are willing to pay for...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Ahaha, yes, exactly, because it is essentially just a turbo charged text predictor with 40GB (or more) of data.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, hey, now! It doesn't just write full emails from merely a single sentence... it also summarizes full emails down to one sentence on the other end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I didn't even realize it could do that! I'm going to use this on emails from HR to translate them to simple English sentences.

"No raises this year because greed"

"We want you to work Saturdays now"