Recent things to read on AI

•  MIT's Technology Lab ran the numbers on generative AI's energy use; you can find their results here. The big takeaway is that we don't know enough about how much energy we're burning through. 
  
  
• Audrey Watters on who the "everyone using AI" is. If you're my age, you'll also walk away singing "do, do, do, do...do, do, do, do...
  
  
• Benjamin Riley on how so much of the research on generative AI is suspect. Something I really want to flag here is that the initial report is what makes the headlines; the "hey wait a minute" does not. This includes in education publications, which were all over that Nigeria study. 
  
  
• And Benjamin Riley borrows Alison Gopnik on how AI is stone soup.