OT: AI use

[Kitaman]

Good stuff. You should post this in the pizza thread.

You know full well we are the experts on Pizza. AI can't compete with 'Yard' humans on this topic.

Posting this there would be an abomination as AI has never tasted our pizza.

 

[TheShot1990]

Anybody worry about having ChatGPT on their computer? Sooner or later it may be able to get your logins and passwords, etc.

It may only take a little tweak on someone's part in changing ChatGPT.

May be a good time to invest in cyber security companies.

Alexa and our IPhones are listening to our conversations 100% of the day. Our phones know where we live, where we go, our favorite pizza, how much we hate Duke, etc... I worry about them even more....

 

[dennismenace]

Alexa and our IPhones are listening to our conversations 100% of the day. Our phones know where we live, where we go, our favorite pizza, how much we hate Duke, etc... I worry about them even more....

Maybe they will be attracted to joining and having their own avatar so we don't know who they are. "If you hang around the creek bank long enough you're going to fall in." I wonder what an ALEXA epic rant would be like. Some times my wife leaves her phone on and will be discussing something and the voice of the computer on the phone starts yipping in and of course we tell it to shut the hell up.

 

[MTBingNinja]

I use it whenever I can. Love it. From bike riding training schedules, to make a flyer, product review, jokes.....endless. I use ChatGPT

 

[Sphinx]

I have glaucoma and today my doctor prescribed a new combination of eyedrops to be used together. I asked Google AI if it was safe to use these drops together. The answer was an emphatic "Not recommended" -- that such usage could actually raise eye pressure. Long list of references cited, including recent lab studies. Now I'm in a real pickle.

 

[QuickDraw]

Its really good at lying to you when you ask it a question about something you know a lot about

I agree.

 

[temery]

I have glaucoma and today my doctor prescribed a new combination of eyedrops to be used together. I asked Google AI if it was safe to use these drops together. The answer was an emphatic "Not recommended" -- that such usage could actually raise eye pressure. Long list of references cited, including recent lab studies. Now I'm in a real pickle.

Ask your pharmacist when the prescriptions are filled. Their computers will flag any potential problems. Regardless of their answer, I would still call your doctor Monday morning.

 

[jibsey]

Air pods can now translate a person speaking a foreign language to you as they speak.
We are starting to see how useful AI can be but I just read that their energy demand will raise everyone’s cost of electricity even higher as their uses expand. (As if they aren’t already high)

 

[temery]

Air pods can now translate a person speaking a foreign language to you as they speak.
We are starting to see how useful AI can be but I just read that their energy demand will raise everyone’s cost of electricity even higher as their uses expand. (As if they aren’t already high)

The potential hacks are going to be absolutely hilarious.

 

[ihatepants]

AI alone is projected to use as much electricity annually as 22% of all homes within the United States by 2028. Only about 40% of electricity produced by the USA is from clean energy or renewable energy sources, possibly dropping even more since there seems to be a lot of lies being spread recently about the "harm" done by clean/renewable energy.

AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025

It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.

www.theverge.com

AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates.
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To crunch these numbers, de Vries-Gao built on earlier research that found that power demand for AI globally could reach 23GW this year — surpassing the amount of electricity used for Bitcoin mining in 2024. While many tech companies divulge total numbers for their carbon emissions and direct water use in annual sustainability reports, they don’t typically break those numbers down to show how many resources AI consumes. De Vries-Gao found a work-around by using analyst estimates, companies’ earnings calls, and other publicly available information to gauge hardware production for AI and how much energy that hardware likely uses.
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Once he figured out how much electricity these AI systems would likely consume, he could use that to forecast the amount of planet-heating pollution that would likely create. That came out to between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons annually. For comparison, New York City emits around 50 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Data centers can also be big water guzzlers, an issue that’s similarly tied to their electricity use. Water is used in cooling systems for data centers to keep servers from overheating. Power plants also demand significant amounts of water needed to cool equipment and turn turbines using steam, which makes up a majority of a data center’s water footprint. The push to build new data centers for generative AI has also fueled plans to build more power plants, which in turn use more water and (and create more greenhouse gas pollution if they burn fossil fuels). AI could use between 312.5 and 764.6 billion liters of water this year, according to de Vries-Gao. That reaches even higher than a previous study conducted in 2023 that estimates that water use could be as much as 600 billion liters in 2027.

For more something affecting people immediately and directly, AI has also led to the insane prices of RAM - more than quadrupling in price over the past few months - and will affect every electronic device in the near future, not just people looking to build a computer.

Samsung and Hynix are devoting 40% of their manufacturing capacity to OpenAI alone, Micron is completely shuttering down consumer production under the Crucial brand to focus only on supplying AI datacenters. Nvidia is cutting production of gaming GPUs by 30-40% in early 2026. Samsung is also halting production of their SATA SSD production this coming year.

 

[beerfan]

The truth about AI: Company burns $1.4 million a year on Microsoft Copilot, only 47 employees click it, executives call it a success anyway

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it “digital transformation.” The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I

citizenwatchreport.com

 

[storrsroars]

I asked who the funniest poster on this forum was:

• Huskybass — another longtime, high-reaction-score poster whose comments often get lots of reactions (a sign the community enjoys their posts). 

If that were the criterion, I'd think SJ would've been at top of the list ;-)

 

[storrsroars]

I love this clip.

 

[CL82]

2) I had a touchy situation where I wanted to have a serious talk with someone and asked for some advice and it gave me great ideas to frame the conversation in a non-confrontational way

I've done the same for personal stuff (resignation from board, etc.) and I find it eliminates my inherent biases.

4) I use it to get a non-biased political recap of things posted on social media, asking for factual basis to support their points.

I suspect that the AI engine you are using is just using sourcing material that has similar biases to your own.

 

[ihatepants]

Those estimates never consider the other side of the coin. AI efficiency may save an equal or greater amount of energy.

Looks like this is currently not the case at all. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 that released in December uses 18Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island's AI Lab and up to 40Wh for any extended reasoning. That's 8.6 times more electricity used per response than GPT-4.

 

[temery]

Looks like this is currently not the case at all. OpenAI's GPT-5.2 that released in December uses 18Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island's AI Lab and up to 40Wh for any extended reasoning. That's 8.6 times more electricity used per response than GPT-4.

Give it time.

 

[Travelman6]

Glad the discussion here is more nuanced than other places. If you go to some of the writing subs on Reddit, apparently, everything is AI according to all the self-proclaimed expert critics and AI-detecting aficionados. People are really up in arms about the whole thing over there; it's become a very toxic website, sort of a witch hunt. It's becoming tougher to become a writer or even do it for fun and simply share.