2026-08-05 16:46 UTC
So what can we do about it? The good news is that AI chips are getting massively more efficient, with the energy use per unit of intelligence falling in half every two years:
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@hausfath@fediscience.org 2026-08-05 16:47
The bad news is that usage is more than outpacing increases in efficiency (Jervons Paradox in action!), and AI compute demand is rapidly rising with no end in sight. While we can try and avoid using agents for trivial things, behavior changes will only go so far.