The massive adoption of chatbots (bullshit generators often "referred tomisleadingly as artificial intelligence") isgreatly increasing thedemand for electric power. This in turn is increasing the use of fossil fuels and thusaccelerating climate disaster.

How ironic that this is a byproduct of making online services function worse.

The article erroneously states that neural network systems "make decisions similar to the humanbrain." Aside from the confused concepts — it makes no sense to compare a decision with abrain — digital "neural network" systems do not work like groups of real neurons. These"neural networks" implement an abstraction and simplification of early theories of how realneurons work. They can do some useful things, but we should avoid erroneous explanations ofthem.