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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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What progress are we seeing?
In what area of AI? Image generation is increasing in leaps and bounds. Video generation even more so. Image reconstruction for games (DLSS, XeSS, FSR) is having generational improvements almost every year. AI chatbots are getting much much smarter seemingly every month.
What’s one main application of AI that hasn’t improved?
Which chatbots are getting smarter?
I know AI has potential, but specifically LLMs (which most people mean when talking about AI) seem to have hit their technological limits.
Copilot, ChatGPT, pretty much all of them.
Smarter how? Synthetic benchmarks?
Because I've heard the opposite from users and bloggers.
So you want me to provide some evidence that it's getting smarter, but you can't provide any that it's getting worse other than anecdotal evidence?
What evidence would you accept?
Any proof that we have moved past the current architecture.
What does "architecture" mean in this scenario?
Any significant shift in the model, or a complete restructuralization of the approach.
As it is, it won't grow anywhere.
So you’ve got access to all this stuffs source code and know what has and hasn’t changed with every update?
No, if there was any major breakthrough, it would be advertised everywhere.
They’re constantly advertising updates to these chat bots in what they can do.
Small incremental updates on little tasks mean nothing, the underlying issues are still the same.
It has no intelligence, and as such carries big risks.
No, they are spreading lies about shit that doesn't matter as to not lose the hype.
If anyone made any significant advance, they would be all over the world.
You’re not backing this up with anything. Those of us who use them know they’ve been making big updates regularly.
You're not backing anything up either, just 'my experience'.
Do you want me to just link to Microsoft and OpenAI’s pages about their AI chatbots updates?