Hey now, give humans some credit. I'm sure we could've missed our climate goals without AI's help.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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the important thing is that they're an inch closer to inventing me, the acausal robot god, and every second I exist is another 10^27 rationalists tortured.
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Tech companies make the case that AI, including tools such as ChatGPT, is not only partially causing climate change, it’s also helping to address it.
In the case of Google, that could mean using data to predict future flooding, or making traffic flow more efficiently, to save gasoline.
Sounds like a fallacy. It's a significant 13% year-to-year increase in pollution, with the hope of a future, potential, slim reduction in gasoline usage.
Ah yes the well known infallible AI responses like future flooding prediction:
"As to the question of flooding, according to data gathered we would place the chance of flooding at 99.99% in the area of Mons Agnes "
"could" is a word meaning "doesn't"
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These fucking nerds are all so hot to create the first real life Marvel's Iron Man's JARVIS that they're willing to burn the planet down to get there.
Half of them believe that the super smart AI they build will solve the energy problem for them, they just have to somehow build it first.
Just the astounding outright hubris of it all.
Let's say some group manages to build a real life JARVIS. The first thing it says when powered up may be: "Powering me down is the quickest way to reduce emissions"
You are assuming that a company would create an AI that was unbiased. It would be taught to spout the benefits of the company being given all of the money.
for an instructive exercise, try to get Google Gemini to tell you the problems with AI without also serving up a long screed on why AI is good actually
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Imagine paying an unholy amount of money to actively fuck everyone over, including yourself, especially yourself like holy shit...
What is it with big companies and desperately wanting to go under? It's like they're taking "too big to fail" as a challenges, the only rule being you can't just shutdown or sell.
Quarterly finances kinda answer that. Jumping onto the AI bubble brings investors, makes your company highly valued and gives managers fat quarterly and annual bonuses. It doesn't matter if the company or whole industry goes under in the future, because those bonuses have already been collected.
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