• @frezik@midwest.social
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    749 months ago

    The solution to global warming is “deploy solar, wind, hydro, and storage en masse, and improve city infrastructure so that more people can walk, bike, and take public transportation rather than using their car”. All AI will do is tell us that, but that’s not the answer people want to hear.

    • @VerbFlow@lemmy.world
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      59 months ago

      I mean, that wouldn’t just solve the climate crisis, that would also get people to talk to each other, help people exercise, cut down on pollution…

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      49 months ago

      IA will answer whatever the corporation wants it to.

      Don’t look at the Indian guy at the terminal, focus on my voice and look at the display.

      • @zbyte64
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        19 months ago

        Guy even gave the plot away when he claims the AI will be incomprehensible, like meeting aliens. So they aren’t even pretending it will justify it’s answers.

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      39 months ago

      In general seems a weird idea to me to think that any “AI” will solve what humans can’t. Their most ambitious goal is something like an artificial human, on the dumb side at that.

      We can have a real human in ~20 years with the fraction of energy their “AI” requires. We already have plenty and they don’t deliver that magic they promise.

      I think it’s just completely clueless people being hellbent on getting from computer science the only thing they think they understand to be valuable in it.

      Either that or they want to have an oracle king, plausibly magical and wise in appearances, so that his solutions would have authority, while being, of course, fed to it by the controlling powers. A Mechanical Turk, only bigger.