• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    14 days ago

    The best part is that we spent 15 years cutting emissions just so a handful of billionaires could burn the savings teaching chatbots to summarize emails nobody wanted to read. Then they’ll sell us AI powered climate solutions, funded by taxpayers, to clean up the mess. Innovation really is a beautiful circle.

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      14 days ago

      Here’s a crazy idea, spend the money on power/network infrastructure now, and build more renewable power generation as we go.

      That way, in the worst case scenario, you have cheap renewable power for a generation rather than warehouses of depreciating and unused silicon.

      Wonder why they decided to run them on NG… Hmmm

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    14 days ago

    It’s funny how they’re still saying “could”, when they really should be saying “will”.

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    13 days ago

    I’m not too worried. This bubble is going to collapse. The demand isn’t there and the money to turn a profit sure isn’t. The news over the last two days hasn’t been so hot for the AI companies.

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      12 days ago

      A lot of damage is still done, though. Just thinking of the fiasco in Finnland

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Reminds me the time, when people theorized Musk wanted to accelerate climate change, so that governments would fund his Mars colonization pet project.