(I have not done the math:) If you factor in 20-30 years of education that each typical white collar human requires as an entry point into their field, and the energy that goes into that, and the energy that goes into the continued upkeep of that human, the billions of seconds you can shave off menial work by pushing it all to an increasingly efficient AI are probably easily worth it, from a purely ecological perspective.
>the billions of seconds you can shave off menial work by pushing it all to an increasingly efficient AI are probably easily worth it, from a purely ecological perspective.
For a fixed amount of work, yes, but capitalism is based on growth, we will just create more work to do.
He mentions that both the dictation model and the editing model run on his laptop, so I'm not sure this is actually using all that much resources (beyond what it took to train the models originally)
