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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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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 months ago (11 children)

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.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 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 3 months 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 3 months 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

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