Computerworld January 6, 2025
Jonny Evans

We’re feeding a greedy beast. So where are the benefits?

Does the rise of artificial intelligence represent more of an opportunity for the world — or a curse? Because for all the clamor about boosted productivity and enhanced human potential, there’s also the rising demand for energy, processor power, memory requirements and ever more bloat on the machine.

Just look at Apple Intelligence, which now demands almost twice as much data storage on your devices than was originally advertised.

I fear that’s the thin end of this cursed wedge. And it’s not as though storage is the only demand AI makes.

AI is a greedy beast

Apple has been forced to roll out major hardware changes to support Apple...

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