LLM farms as a massive electricity sink

The massive adoption of chatbots (bullshit generators often referred to misleadingly as "artificial intelligence") is greatly increasing the demand for electric power. This in turn is increasing the use of fossil fuels and thus accelerating climate disaster.

How ironic that this is a byproduct of making online services function worse.

The article erroneously states that neural network systems "make decisions similar to the human brain." Aside from the confused concepts — it makes no sense to compare a decision with a brain — digital "neural network" systems do not work like groups of real neurons. These "neural networks" implement an abstraction and simplification of early theories of how real neurons work. They can do some useful things, but we should avoid erroneous explanations of them.