Can we stop with this bullshit already, so we can focus on the real issues, like it requiring way too much resources or posing a huge risk on the stability of the global economy?
The risk to the global economic system is also oversold. AI enables the same work to be done for a lower cost, and more types of work to be done overall. No different than previous industrial automation. There are vast capabilities in medicine, energy, automated design, manufacturing, and science that are only now being unlocked. Does that sound like something that will crash the economy?
Right now the models actually run most optimally and economically in a data center b/c multiple requests can be batched on a single GPU. This may change of course...
I'm weird and worry about AI x-risk though, so feel free to dismiss me for that if you like.
Just think what happens if 20% of office workers get sacked and can no longer find a job, and the elites keep pushing for a "better" world.
Although I do enjoy the use of AI to certain extent, I have always been an AI doomer.
I do think AI poses huge environmental and societal risks, including for reasons in the spirit of what you say. That's not being an AI doomer IMHO. That looks way more reasonable to me.