Sustainable?

I know there is an increasing fear that at some point, we’ll look out our windows and all we’ll be able to see are data centers in any direction. Companies are gobbling up land like crazy, or trying to, and there is something about this mad rush that might have many justifiably wondering who’s going to help us with rising electricity costs, or if this whole enterprise won’t end up being the next bubble to burst.

Maybe there is some rational middle course that includes the understanding that when used properly and judiciously, in search of solutions to problems and dilemmas we face in daily life, artificial intelligence will be an amazing tool at our disposal 24/7.

The other day, Chat GPT and I worked through a problem we had here at the house. I presented a detailed explanation of what was going on, Chat took a couple of seconds to analyze and evaluate, and then offered up several informed and well-reasoned possibilities for why the door on our new shed wouldn’t open. It also gave me several possible solutions, and the first one I tried… worked.

It remains to be seen if current and future investments in the technology will be worth the astronomical costs, and if the technology won’t be co-opted by bad players– which seems almost inevitable. Still, whether we acknowledge it or not, AI is already here, and if we don’t invest, someone else likely will.