Oh yeah. And you can be sure died knowing he was totally correct.
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They didnât say anything at all about their hypothetical future product, but apparently we still have to treat it like a product announcement, instead of âbusiness claims it will make something at some pointâ. 
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So they said that itâs
- Fully aware of your surroundings
- Unobtrusive with no screen
- A âcompanionâ
- Canât compute entirely on its own
- Wearable
I mean they already gave away the whole game, didnât they? Thereâs only one possible piece of technology that meets all that criteria, and it was perfected long ago.
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Should be pretty cheap, I hear they work for peanuts (and the occasional cracker)âŚ
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Personally, I think it will be a walkman that only plays an AI-generated music stream.
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Ok, I get the idea of the laptop and desktop, but the carbon footprint is for the human existing for the length of time it takes to write something. They say as much â itâs assuming their emissions while writing are consistent with their overall annual emissions. Doesnât that mean the footprint for the human should be zero, unless you imagine theyâre going to stop existing if they donât write something? 
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Not to mention that the volume of disconnected texts and strange illustrations that AI creates per minute is many, many times greater than those created by flesh-and-blood artists and dilettantes.
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I mean, to make the comparison at all Iâm accepting the premise that they simply want the page filled with text and donât really care about what it says. The environmental impact is a real question and thatâs probably the only way to assess it, since if you did care then the writer might well be the whole point. I had marveled about this before, but I think Ed Zitron really hit it the piece linked above:
These people donât want to automate work, they want to automate existence. They fantasize about hitting a button and something happening, because experiencing â living! â is beneath them, or at least your lives and your wants and your joy are. They donât want to plan their kidsâ birthday parties. They donât want to research things. They donât value culture or art or beauty. They want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy.
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This is 4 yrs old but quite good
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All LLMs are prima facie in breach of GDPR.
Change my mind.
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Imma call bullshit at this, just at first glance, the magic Chat GPT of low carbon usage also has a laptop or desktop on top of the pollution caused by the usage of the server farm.
Also, I donât know what itâs like elsewhere, but here in Ireland the server farm emissions are bullshit. We donât know how much they do. They have exemptions from the EPA and stacks of diesel generators for when the grid is under pressure.
They are fucking filthy.
And filthy liars of course.
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