• florge@feddit.uk
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    2 months 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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        2 months ago

        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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          2 months ago

          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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            2 months ago

            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.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

      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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      2 months ago

      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.