Interesting Links for 14-04-2026

[andrewducker]

1. How much co2 does training AI models produce?

(tags:ai co2 )

2. Consuming artificial sweeteners may raise diabetes risk for your children and grandchildren by modifying gene expression (in mice)

(tags:diabetes epigenetics taste )

3. Iconic Edinburgh city centre toy shop "Wonderland Models" set to close after plans to turn shop into two restaurants approved

(tags:toys Edinburgh shopping )

4. Birds do not, in fact, hit wind turbines

(tags:windpower birds GoodNews )

5. 'Bloodborne' Video Game Getting R-Rated Animated Movie Adaptation

(tags:movies games animation )

Comments

[calimac]

Trump didn't say that birds hit wind turbines. He said they hit windmills.

No, seriously, that'd probably be his defense if he's called on it.

[coth]

Although very small percentages of very large numbers can still be taken out of context and expressed as large numbers.

[nancylebov]

1. There's little agitation to get rid of gasohol, even though that's pure waste in the US.

#1

[mellowtigger]

That's a surprisingly low amount of CO2 for training a system on the sum total of human knowledge. Implementing those models repeatedly at scale is, I'm sure, where the main energy/environmental cost accrues. We can hope that AI compute centers switch to renewables sooner rather than later.

Re: #1

[andrewducker]

Yeah, the sooner we move everything to renewables the better!

Re: #1

[zz]

yeah, training the model might be a big lump of resource use, but running the model for millions of users every day probably eclipses that.