Proponents of AI’s massive infrastructure and energy usage has been justified by saying it’s a moonshot to find solutions to climate cataclysm.
Numerous comments on Reddit have declared gpt 5 to indicate more of an S curve than a takeoff.
Bracketing that debate, if we are seeing a falloff in advancement, does this mean AI is still worth the tradeoff in energy use vs finding climate solutions?
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