Post #3209127

2026-06-03 05:56 UTC

@kentpitman@climatejustice.social I wonder if someone has done an analysis of the cost of e.g. having a person orgmode lob-ingest and o-b-execute a few internal orgmode documents to e.g. generate a fancy report, which would be a no-datacentres-at-all thing to do, versus having an ai invent the report from first principles in a datacentre on the other side of the world. @yantar92@fosstodon.org

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@yantar92@fosstodon.org 2026-06-03 05:59

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social The way you state it is ambiguous. Cost in what terms? What kind of report? Does it require extensive literature search? Data processing? Depending on answers to these questions, the result will vary between AI is absolutely more superior to AI is a total waste of resources that also produces useless result.

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@djl@mastodon.mit.edu 2026-06-03 06:34

@screwlisp@gamerplus.org @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @yantar92@fosstodon.org "fancy report ... versus having an ai ..." Two problems here: the cost of the ai is currently being massively subsidised and the LLMs can't not halucinate, so verifying that the ai report is accurate has costs. The AI stuff in a specific domain where it's possible to have a domain model works (Go, protein folding), but has to be redone for each domain. As someone who applied to college to study AI in 1971, neither LLM nor domain model games are AI.

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