• florge@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    AI isn’t going to come with a new magic solution to global warming, it’s going to come with the same solutions we already have. Solutions which we should already be doing, but instead we’re listening to these fucks with too much money.

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      It’s just an excuse to kick the can down the road further and continue making short term cash.

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        Schmidt promises that these AI companies will make energy generation systems at least 15% more efficient or maybe even better, telling the audience that “that’s a lot of money for a utility.”

        He’s not even trying to be subtle about it.

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          I would love to drop these guys into a post scarcity society where their money means jack shit and see how they react.

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            Can you drop me there first, please?

            I promise to be suitably wowed. Also, I’ll film them for you. Sacrifices for the greater good or whatever.

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      The only thing we should use AI for is to replace CEOs. AI can spit out inane bullshit at a fraction of the cost of a CEO.

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      Of course it will. Simple: build a bunch of killer robots to exterminate 90% of humanity. Problem solved.

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      If actual scientists were in charge, and maybe had some ideas that they weren’t certain would work but sounded promising, which could be theoretically tested with AI - there would be hope.
      But none of these fuckers would allow anyone with more than half a brain cell near it, because “investment and growth and blablabla”

      Then again, we could just do that with existing supercomputers and all these power hungry AI crap companies’ resources (I’m sure some supercomputers do get used for the modelling already)…instead of whatever the fuck they’re trying to do now.

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      Do you think that they’ll listen to that then? No, they’ll just say that “the models are wrong” and continue to use up even more energy.

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      AI will solve it if they give AI the wheel. And I’m sure one of the first thing it’ll do is eliminating all humans

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      Additionally, if AI actually gives us this answer, tge answer we have already now, will we as a global society actualky implement it, because it sounds inconvenient (at least for some) or will we say, hey the AI seems to have made a mistake.

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      It’s almost like these fucks don’t understand anything about the technology they’re touting