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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)

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[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 72 points 6 days ago

If only Google had a working search engine before AI

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 50 points 6 days ago

Yes, but now we can get much worse results and three pages of ads for ten times the energy cost. Capitalism at its finest.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Its not even hidden, people just give zero fucks about how their magical rectangle works and get mad if you try to tell them.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago

If only they did what DuckDuckGo did and made it so it only popped up in very specific circumstances, primarily only drawing from current summarized information from Wikipedia in addition to its existing context, and allowed the user to turn it off completely in one click of a setting toggle.

I find it useful in DuckDuckGo because it's out of the way, unobtrusive, and only pops up when necessary. I've tried using Google with its search AI enabled, and it was the most unusable search engine I've used in years.

[-] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

I haven't had any problems myself.

In fact, I regularly use their anonymized LLM Chat tab to help out with restructuring data, summarizing some more complex topics, or finding some info that doesn't readily appear near the top of search. It's made my search experience (again, specifically in my circumstance) much better than before.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

If these guys gave a shit they'd focus on light based chips, which are in very early stages, but will save a lot of power.

[-] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago

you mean the IBM light chips and bus ?

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was talking about the photonic chips from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, but looking into it the last update on that was four years ago.

I know they were entangling photons, so there's probably lots of research and parts to work on, but still, maybe it's just not moving forwards.

I'm not that familiar with the technology, but the benefits seem worthy of more news than they get.

What are IBM's efforts like?

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