AI Water Use Distractions and Lessons for California - California WaterBlog
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By Jay Lund . . . Artificial intelligence (AI) will affect many economic and natural resource sectors as these new technologies develop and mature. We are in the early years of this process. Like most new things, AI has become an object of small and great hopes and fears – from hopes for saving and
  • frosch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I just glanced over out of curiosity.

    That fucking AI Slop image used for visualization itself is almost too much to bear…

    And - maybe I just got something wrong, please correct me otherwise - what’s up with the units used in the handmade and AI-verified calculations?

    • what’s 70mm (millimetres) of water? Did they mean mm3?
    • one bullet point estimated the evaporation per square meter, the next one is about per cubic meter of floor space (?)
    • overall, I’d guess you’d have to calculate the evaporation for the total air volume and not the plain floor space… Which is, well a fucking lot more