Technology

AI: "Be more responsible."

Them: "... No."

AI Datacenters are on course to consume an increase in power more than the current consumption of the nation of Japan.

AI already consume more power than crypto.

They're the opposite of a solution to climate change, they're a slow fire that will consume all.

And what have the LLMs produced? Jack fucking shit: just a lot of IP theft, research fraud, and worsening customer service.

"Fuck the climate! What about my bank account?!"

If we launched enough of these assholes towards a Lagrange point between the sun and earth we could really cut down on climate change.

Just a thought.

These idiots truly believe AI is magic and it solves everything.. Isn't it..

You know I'm thinking maybe it's time we made Running Man a real thing ... I know who its first contestant can be.

The problem, maximizing profits does meet the climate goals.

they would just make ais tell stupid things how only way to solve global warming is to give even more money to them, why would same thing from ai be any different. We need to seriously start doing non peaceful protests against this shit or we are going to die if we are lucky or watch the planet wither and always remember how we could have prevented the loss of most animals and plants but couldnt be bothered.

We don't need AI to determine an immediate and permanent solution to climate change, we already know what it is, just nobody wants to say it out loud

How do idiots like that end up in positions of authority over companies?

Give the ring to Boromir, he will know what's best

Former CEO of the river poisoning company says there is no way to meet our river poison reduction goals, so we might as well build bigger river poisoning machines because they might help us figure out how to stop poisoning the river. /s

I feel like there was a time when the tech folks in silicon valley had a lot of credibility, and we are now living in a period where most of the world sees them as a joke but that fact has not yet entered into the culture of silicon valley.

Well to be fair if we just go full ham with crypto mining and so called AI, we'll belch enough GHGs into the atmosphere that the actual climate apocalypse will come within 20 years or so, wiping out most of human so called civilization, which will put the climate on a path to resetting over the next couple hundred thousand years.

Solved!

My "day job" is doing spatial data science work for local and regional governments that have a mandate to addreas climate change in how they allocate resources. We totally use AI, just not the kind that has received all the hype... machine learning helps us recognize patterns in human behavior and system dynamics that we can use to make predictions about how much different courses of action will affect CO2 emissions. I'm even looking at small GPT models as a way to work with some of the relevant data that is sequence-like. But I will never, I repeat never, buy into the idea of spending insane amounts of energy attempting to build an AI god or Oracle that we can simply ask for the "solution to climate change"... I feel like people like me need to do a better job of making the world aware of our work, because the fact that this excuse for profligate energy waste has any traction at all seems related to the general ignorance of our existence.

Right, let's solve our biggest problem by unfettering capitalism, and definitely will not just further concentrate power and wealth.

“We can’t solve climate change by repeating our past behavior. Let’s ignore climate change and build a machine that regurgitates our past behavior.”

If it turns out that we're actually truly past the point of no return and nothing we do will save our species, I don't think the response is going to be as passive as billionaires would like.