タグ: ai impact

A single text prompt to Google Gemini uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity and roughly 0.26 millilitres of water, around five drops. A comparable ChatGPT query sits near 0.34 watt-hours, meaning Gemini uses roughly 29% less energy per prompt. Those numbers sound tiny, but multiply them by billions of prompts a day and the footprint of everyday AI use becomes very real. So which AI is the most eco-friendly, and is switching to a dedicated “green” AI tool actually worth it? This guide ranks the mainstream models by energy and water use, breaks down the dedicated eco-friendly AI tools worth knowing, and shows you the single most effective thing you […]

Yes, AI is bad for the environment, and the numbers are no longer up for debate. Global data-center electricity use is set to jump from 415 TWh in 2024 to roughly 945 TWh by 2030 per the International Energy Agency, mostly because of AI. Cornell researchers project AI servers alone will emit 24 to 44 million metric tons of CO₂ and consume 731 to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year by 2030. That is equivalent to adding 5 to 10 million cars to U.S. roads and matching the household water use of 6 to 10 million Americans. That is the bad news, and it is real. The longer […]

How much water does ChatGPT use? OpenAI’s own figure, stated by CEO Sam Altman, is about 0.000085 gallons per query, roughly 0.32 mL or one fifteenth of a teaspoon, alongside 0.34 watt-hours of electricity. Independent estimates that count only data-center cooling land a little higher, around 1.5 to 4 mL per prompt. The scary viral number, about 519 mL (a full bottle) to write a 100-word email with GPT-4, is not a contradiction. It counts the entire electricity and training supply chain, which is why credible figures span more than 150x. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, per prompt, […]

2025年、新たな名前がエンターテインメント業界を騒がせ始めた。ブレイクした演技やレッドカーペットでの姿ではなく、彼女がまったく人間ではないからだ。ティリー・ノーウッドは、世界初の完全AI生成女優だ。彼女は写真のようにリアルで、20代の “隣の家の少女 ”であり、完全にクラウド上で生活している。2025年9月27日、チューリッヒ映画祭の業界サミットで紹介された彼女は、すぐにハリウッドのタレントエージェントに求愛され始めた。彼女のことを創造的な実験、あるいはデジタルアート作品と呼ぶ人もいれば、 [...]...

もしあなたが今後数年で大学を卒業するのであれば、誰もが予測できないほどのスピードで変化する雇用市場に足を踏み入れることになる。一部のAIリーダーによれば、エントリーレベルのホワイトカラーの仕事の半分は5年以内に自動化される可能性がある一方、この世代は一人起業家として10億ドル規模の企業を立ち上げるのに役立つツールを利用できると主張する人もいる。これらの予測の隔たりは、仕事の未来がいかに不確かなものになっているかを明らかにしている。セールスフォースは最近、AI能力を理由に4,000人の雇用を削減した。他の企業も、人工知能が仕事を処理できる特定の職務を廃止しようとしている。一方、若い起業家たちは、こうした [...] 続きを読む

人の反AI活動家が現在、大手AI企業本社の前で10日以上にわたるハンストを行っている。ギド・ライヒスタッターはAnthropic社のオフィスの外で、マイケル・トラッツィはDeepMind社で抗議活動をしている。両者とも、人工知能への道は人類に存亡の危機をもたらすと主張している。彼らの主張によれば、AI企業は世界中の家族や子供たちに危害を加えかねない危険な領域に向かって突き進んでいるという。この抗議行動は、現在のAI開発は無謀であり、破滅的な事態を招きかねないと考える人々の、大きくなりつつあるがまだ小さな運動を代表するものである。ライヒスタッターは2児の父であり、以前は28時間にわたって橋の上で抗議活動を行った。

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their use of romantic AI technologies. The results show that 19% of all adults have interacted with AI chatbots designed as romantic partners, while 13% actively seek out AI-generated social media accounts featuring idealized virtual people. Also, people in committed relationships are actually more likely to use romantic AI than single people, challenging assumptions about loneliness […]

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through the dotcom crash of 2000. Data center buildouts to support AI are expected to cost $364 billion in 2025 – making the entire cloud revolution look small in comparison. Meanwhile, a recent MIT study dropped a bombshell: 95% of enterprise AI projects are delivering zero return on investment. That’s a lot of money chasing very […]

It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: the same tech billionaires shaping our digital future are quietly preparing for a much darker one. From private bunkers in Hawaii to fortified basements and New Zealand hideouts, several AI leaders are investing heavily in survival infrastructure. Some of the most influential people in tech are quietly preparing for worst-case scenarios. They are heavily involved in AI, automation, and platforms that billions rely on daily. Their decisions to invest in bunkers or remote shelters raise a practical question: why now, and what are they preparing for? Let’s break down what’s really going on—who’s building what, where, and why—and then explore the bigger picture […]

As generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Gemini become more common, their real-world impact on jobs is starting to take shape. In a major 2025 study, Microsoft Research analyzed 200,000 anonymized U.S.-based conversations with Bing Copilot to see what kinds of work tasks people are using AI for—and how well the AI handles them. By matching these tasks to official job categories from the O*NET database, the study maps out which occupations are most exposed to AI capabilities. Instead of speculating how many jobs AI might replace, the researchers introduced an “AI applicability score” for each job, based on task frequency, success rate, and how much of the […]