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[–] florge@feddit.uk 331 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 158 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 15 points 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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

That's what I've been saying for years, we should start on the most expensive jobs.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's an advanced AI. Surely it can do an Israel and remotely detonate the smartphones of the people it doesn't need anymore.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's not like our emissions ever grew 1000% per capita because we had no better plan.

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 10 points 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.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Emi@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

It would just end up like in the Love death and robots episode When the Yogurt Took Over. They wouldn't listen and just do their own thing.

[–] Melt@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] paw@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] freeman@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago