Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that AI is advancing so fast, and requires so much energy, that there is no way to keep up with climate goals.
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    58·
    29 days ago

    “We should all max out and default on 1 billion credit cards because we’ll never pay out all debts”. Maybe if we frame it that way the religious capitalists will get it.

  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
    1·
    22 days ago

    Or…and hear me out…maybe instead we blast AI data centers with these Jewish space lasers I keep hearing about and leave the land to return to nature? Just spitballin’.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    28 days ago

    “we gotta find SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW to justify all this AI garbage or it’s gonna tank the company.”

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    51·
    29 days ago

    There’s a danger when you advocate abandoning all hope of survival and you haven’t yet figured out immortality for yourself.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      7·
      29 days ago

      What? But that’s what the bunker in the remote island is for! And the security guards with shock/bomb collars. For living forever right?

      I mean Biden just rushed a mad scientist a government position to replace brains slowly with fetal stem cells to end aging. And god I wish I was making up any of that.
      (Inspired by west world to replace his whole body??)

      They are hoping to drag this out long enough to figure it out.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    28 days ago

    That would make sense if we were all going to blink out of existence*, but we’re going to still be here, with raisable and lowerable levels of suffering.

    “My toe is already stubbed, no reason not to cut both my legs off”

    *actually no it wouldn’t because AI is still a massive threat even without the climate getting worse from it.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
    2·
    28 days ago

    If we are all going to die by our stupidity anyway, we might as well speed up the process so our last moments will be with better AI to generate more realistic porn images.

    I mean, the survival of the planet might be important to some, but the profits of mega corps is more important. Billionaires need to figure out how to travel to Mars so they can chill there before the earth turns to Venus. They need our money for that, and AI to replace annoying poor humans when they live in their Mars mansion.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    26·
    29 days ago

    That’s a stupid reaso, but I’d buy: we should go all in on ai data centers since that’s a new economic sector that we can dominate, plus it’s less polluting than lusting after a coal industry that never was or steel that never will be again

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      4·
      29 days ago

      Actually we have discovered the liquid Natural Gas plants we have been building to get more “clean” power to handle the demand for electricity is actually worse for the world and more polluting than coal! Neat right?

      Also metal work will literally always be needed or what are we building all these data centers with?

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        15·
        29 days ago

        Natural gas is generally converted to LNG for shipping, especially exports but also wherever pipelines are insufficient. US is a huge producer of natural gas and has hundreds of thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines. This wouldn’t be LNG.

        Of course natural gas pipelines also may have leaks and methane is much worse for climate change than CO2 (but for shorter time). However we have been making progress on monitoring and repairs

        Predictably increased power usage may also drive investment in renewable energy, shortening the life of polluting power. Regardless, AI is likely much less polluting than say cement or steel production

  • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip
    1·
    28 days ago

    Not even going to pretend that AI investment will solve climate change then? Saying the quiet part out loud?

    Speaking of former tech executives known for comically bad strategic decisions, Steve Ballmer was on the Daily Show recently and I was thought “this is the guy who said Linux was cancer and decided not to invest in mobile phones, can’t take him seriously” but the guy seems to be doing some interesting stuff now, more interesting and less harmful than “AI” anyways. Has a site usafacts.com attempting to make hard data with reliable sources easily available for better political discussions. Seems better than some of these other billionaires with their “free speech” platforms and “alternative facts”.