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We need to check the gen AI hype and get back to reality
We have already invested far more in LLMs — time, money, human effort, energy and breathless anticipation — than we will ever see in return.
A recent report found that Google’s AI overview, for example, must create entirely new information in response to a search, which costs an estimated 30 times more energy than extracting directly from a source. A colleague of mine, without a hint of irony, claimed that because of AI, high school education would be obsolete within five years, and that by 2029 we would live in an egalitarian paradise, free from menial labor. They live in a world of pure hope and faith in the same people who brought us the hype that crypto and Bitcoin will all banking, cars will drive themselves within five years and the metaverse will replace reality for most humans.
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