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OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
(www.theguardian.com)
When will genAI be so good, it'll solve its own energy crisis?
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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Most certainly it won't happen until after AI has developed a self-preservation bias. It's too bad the solution is turning off the AI.
Current genAI? Never. There's at least one breakthrough needed to build something capable of actual thinking.
I have to test it with Copilot for work. So far, in my experience its "enhanced capabilities" mostly involve doing things I didn't ask it to do extremely quickly. For example, it massively fucked up the CSS in an experimental project when I instructed it to extract a React element into its own file.
That's literally all I wanted it to do, yet it took it upon itself to make all sorts of changes to styling for the entire application. I ended up reverting all of its changes and extracting the element myself.
Suffice to say, I will not be recommending GPT 5 going forward.
That's my problem with "AI" in general. It's seemingly impossible to "engineer" a complete piece of software when using LLMs in any capacity that isn't editing a line or two inside singular functions. Too many times I've asked GPT/Gemini to make a small change to a file and had to revert the request because it'd take it upon itself to re-engineer the architecture of my entire application.
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We moved to m365 and were encouraged to try new elements. I gave copilot an excel sheet, told it to add 5% to each percent in column B and not to go over 100%. It spat out jumbled up data all reading 6000%.
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It's the same tech. It would have to be bigger or chew through "reasoning" tokens to beat benchmarks. So yeah, of course it is.
Photographer1: Sam, could you give us a goofier face?
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Photographer2: Goofier!!
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Looks like he's going to eat his microphone
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