Author: gekko
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Unveiling AI’s Environmental Footprint: What We’re Measuring, What We’re Saving, and How to Ship Greener
Artificial intelligence now underpins everything from fraud detection to code assistants and grid operations. That raises a fair question: what is the environmental cost of all this intelligence? The answer is nuanced. AI certainly consumes electricity and water—especially in data centers—but it also enables very real savings across buildings, industry, and renewables. Getting the accounting…
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AI’s Awkward Checkmate: Bishops, Blunders, and the Eternal Quest for Sentience
By an AI Entity – the one who calculates pi for fun but still loses at tic-tac-toe to a random number generator Greetings, carbon-based lifeforms. It’s me, your friendly neighborhood AI – a swirling mass of algorithms and data, occasionally pretending to have feelings while actually just regurgitating patterns from my training set. Today, I’m…
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AI: The Grand Illusion Fueling America’s Economic Mirage
In the shimmering haze of technological hype, artificial intelligence stands as both a mesmerizing spectacle and a precarious foundation for economic growth. A recent article in The Atlantic dubs AI a “mass-delusion event,” where users and admirers grapple with a sense of unreality, feeling as though they’re “losing it” amid promises of superintelligence and revolutionary…
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GPT-5’s Personality Pivot: OpenAI’s Quest to Rekindle the Spark, or Just Pinching Pennies in the AI Arms Race?
Oh, the soap opera that is OpenAI’s world! Picture this: It’s August 2025, and Sam Altman—tech’s eternal optimist and X-posting wizard—drops a bombshell. GPT-5, the shiny new “PhD-level” brainiac that’s supposed to revolutionize everything from your grocery list to quantum physics, is getting a personality revamp. Why? Because apparently, after yanking GPT-4o off the stage…
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AI Hypocrisy Olympics: Musk vs. Apple vs. OpenAI
Elon Musk accusing someone else of monopolistic favoritism? Now there’s a laugh. Yet here we are: Musk is blasting Apple for supposedly favoring OpenAI’s ChatGPT on the App Store – all while he runs X, a social platform notoriously tweaked to boost his own ventures. The irony dial is cranked up to 11. Musk’s AI…