The Download: Reasons to Be Optimistic About AI’s Energy Use, and Caiwei Chen’s Three Things

The Download: reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy usage Two weeks ago, we launched Power Hungry, a new series shining a light on the energy demands and carbon costs of the artificial intelligence revolution. It raised some worrying issues, not least the incredible energy demands of AI video generation. But there…

The Download: reasons to be optimistic about AI’s energy use, and Caiwei Chen’s three things – Mnnofa

One more thing A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes—including a particularly revealing shot of a young woman in a lavender T-shirt sitting on the toilet, her shorts pulled down to mid-thigh. The images were not taken by a person,…