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- techtakes@awful.systems
- tangentism ( @tangentism@beehaw.org ) 13•5 hours ago
Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”
For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies
“Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”
Epic says to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”
- NigelFrobisher ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 3•4 hours ago
We’re not going to hit our climate targets so he’s going to snort an entire mailbag of cocaine every single day.
- ClassifiedPancake ( @ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•6 hours ago
We have all the solutions, we just need to execute them.
- Spacehooks ( @Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) English1•32 minutes ago
But the shareholders!
- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•7 hours ago
the first advice the superintelligent ai would give: “power me down”
- slacktoid ( @slacktoid@lemmy.ml ) English5•7 hours ago
Why not both you fucking clown
- Branquinho ( @Branquinho@lemmy.eco.br ) 11•10 hours ago
“I’m not hitting my goals on staying sober. I’d rather bet on my next drink to solve this problem for me.”
- kembik ( @kembik@lemm.ee ) 8•11 hours ago
And we’ll come up with a name that merges climate and technology, let’s call it skynet.
- arthur ( @arthur@lemmy.zip ) English7•11 hours ago
Some people should just shut up and retire.
- regul ( @regul@lemm.ee ) 57•17 hours ago
What solution is AI going to come up with other than “stop burning fossil fuels”? We already know the solution to climate change. Acting like we don’t is absurd.
I think a good first step in meeting climate goals would be eating Eric Schmidt.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•4 hours ago
It can only be hoping for some alien technology that we haven’t found out with modern research will be discovered. Like an extreme version of carbon recapture that hasn’t been thought of.
Except somehow derived from literature, images, and the internet as points of data.
How? Well, I’m sure the AI will tell us… right?
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 2•7 hours ago
If we can’t get the solution implemented, then it’s not a solution.
- Norah - She/They ( @princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•4 hours ago
So what you’re saying is that it is indeed time to move on to eating the rich?
- masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 16•15 hours ago
The solution to humanity’s climate change problem is to eliminate humans.
~ AI
- desktop_user ( @desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•9 hours ago
block the sun is also a method to reduce global warming.
- teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 1•7 hours ago
You’re only technically correct
- desktop_user ( @desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•7 hours ago
so you agree that it would work
- Megaman_EXE ( @Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ) 6•11 hours ago
I saw a post the other day here that was saying something along the lines of “because china’s car market is swapping to EV’s we might be at the tipping point for climate change either in 2024 or 2025”
Which if true would be really nice. I have no idea of the validity of that claim, but i just wanted to add it. Maybe we aren’t so screwed? Fingers crossed I guess :3
- realharo ( @realharo@lemm.ee ) 1•4 hours ago
So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.
- Megaman_EXE ( @Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ) 1•4 hours ago
Yeah, I could have, but it would have taken longer than 5 minutes of work, and I’m not nearly knowledgeable enough to take all the factors into account. I was posting this while taking a quick break etc.
I was just trying to add some hope to an otherwise gloomy topic.
But you’re right, I’m sure with some effort I could probably have at least a ballpark idea.
- Nougat ( @Nougat@fedia.io ) 8•13 hours ago
The solution must be a hammer, because I have one!
- jasoncg ( @jasoncg@programming.dev ) 22•17 hours ago
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!”
- Eric Schmidt, probably
- Spacehooks ( @Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) English1•28 minutes ago
IRL Ted faro energy. Bet he will betray humanity again somehow to ease his conscious.
- lily33 ( @lily33@lemm.ee ) 27•18 hours ago
If we wait for AI to be advanced enough to solve the problem and don’t do anything in the meantime, when the time finally comes, the AI will (then, rightfully) determine that there’s only one way to solve it…
- Fermion ( @Fermion@feddit.nl ) 13•16 hours ago
Natural Intelligence has already proposed solutions. The real lie is in expecting us to believe that decision makers would be any more likely to act on the solutions that AI comes up with.
- Blake (he/him) ( @bl4kers@beehaw.org ) English1•4 hours ago
That’s exactly right. Even if we made an AI that could give us the perfect solution and had accurate projections to back up its assertions, inevitably we’d reject it because we wouldn’t trust it fully. It cannot fix the often selfish nature of humans
- FIash Mob #5678 ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 5•14 hours ago
There are so many high-profile assholes in this country named Eric.
- NoForwardslashS ( @NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ) 31•19 hours ago
The schmuck doesn’t even know what AI stands for.
- DavidGarcia ( @DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ) 8•19 hours ago
it ends on “insertion”