There are different kinds of AI. Can’t lump them all in a single box. Neural nets had some huge benefits environmentally and fiscally. Organizing the cargo shipments of the US military saved huge amounts of fuel and money. Like any very powerful tool, it is double edged. Fire is great if you are cooking or heating but makes a fine method for destroying homes and inquisitions. Most of the pop culture AI is questionable at best, but the AI designing new non rare earth electric motors in England, solved a 12 year old issue in months without the need for building and testing every iteration of the design. AI is very good at tasks of huge scale, and parsing the whole to find efficiency and waste. True AI (not chatgpt) does more than parrot, it can run its own tests to find answers and incorporate those answers into the next calculation. I don’t want it to make my movies or paintings, I want it to manage airline schedules and traffic lights. Blaming AI is like blaming the dog instead of the owner. Computers do as they are programmed, people are the issue! And the resource calculations are horribly biased, compare the energy/resources used by AI to those used by the number of humans it would take to perform the same task. Power consumption in modern chips falls with every generation as does waste heat. I will now yield my soapbox…
Definitely Iggy!! There’s the famous Nazca Roomba, the Uffington “White Roomba”, the Cerne Abbas Giant Roomba, of course “Roomba Henge”, as well as the “Roomba of Rhodes”, “Machu-roomba”, and “Temple of the Roomba” near the sphinx in Egypt, and the Norse Saga “Roombawulf”, “The 12 Roombas of Hercules”, the list goes on. (See: Eric Von Suction, “Roombas of the Gods”)
English huh? I would have guessed Roombas spoke Java, lucky break for the pink house dwellers. Iggy makes me think… Seems like there is more going there than meets the casual glance.
A four ellipse faux pas!! Elvis … gently… rebuked