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2025 AI Index Report

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Signez ◴[] No.43645619[source]
Surprised not to see a whole chapter on the environment impact. It's quite a big talking point around here (Europe, France) to discredit AI usage, along with the usual ethics issues about art theft, job destruction, making it easier to generate disinformation and working conditions of AI trainers in low-income countries.

(Disclaimer: I am not an anti-AI guy — I am just listing the common talking points I see in my feeds.)

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calvinmorrison ◴[] No.43646204[source]
whats the lifetime environmental impact of hiring one decent human being who is capable enough assist with work. Well a lot, you gotta do 25 years with 30 kids to get one useful person.

You get to upgrade them, kill them off, have them on demand

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1. simonw ◴[] No.43646726[source]
I saw a fun comparison a while back (which I now cannot find) of the amount of CO2 it takes to train a leading LLM compared to the amount of CO2 it takes to fly every attendee of the NeurIPS AI conference (13,000+ people) to and from the event.
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2. danielbln ◴[] No.43646941[source]
Well don't let us hanging.
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3. simonw ◴[] No.43647025[source]
"(which I now cannot find)"