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Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, so (apnews.com)

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

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