„LLMs are not the AI we need to address climate change; they are the AI we would use if we wanted to risk serious harm to the climate. Clarifying the difference between the two is critical. (...) Chatbots and movie synthesis machines (perhaps the most energetically costly systems) are fun, maybe even amazing - but I don’t think we should be risking our planet for them.”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/eric-schmidts-risky-bet-on-ai-and
I discovered Gary Marcus' substack today, and it's really worth a read.