| ▲ | orionblastar 4 days ago |
| If only AI were used for good and not for evil. Think of the jobs replaced with AI. Please think of the students cheating by letting AI write their papers. Please think of the high school student who creates porn using Deepfake AI of the girls in his class instant kiddie porn. We need AI to solve climate change, but the energy costs will contribute to climate change. We need a cure for cancer, and an end to COVID and other dangerous viruses, a way for a personal AI that does tasks and earns the user money for basic income or something. |
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| ▲ | otabdeveloper4 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > We need AI to solve climate change It's a chat bot. Solving climate change is way above its paygrade. |
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| ▲ | coffeebeqn 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | LLMs aren’t the only game in town | | |
| ▲ | red-iron-pine 3 days ago | parent [-] | | but LLMs seem to be the only one delivering. something something RNA Moderna something -- yeah, okay, in niche fields. what, specifically, is AI doing to fix climate change? outside of creating a shit-ton of carbon burning through electricity, that is. |
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| ▲ | raverbashing 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I feel it would only repeat the same things the boomers are too hard headed to understand And probably also note that the proposals of the climate-justified-vandals are too unrealistic There's nothing more nonsense than a solar-nuclear antagonism. Build more solar. Build more nuclear, preferably SMRs, and do more research on ways of making it safer and cost-effective. Fill the dry sunny areas with solar and batteries. Fill the windy areas with wind turbines and treat anyone opposing this with the same contempt as people vandalizing paintings "for the climate" Every car should be at least a hybrid, because there's nothing more clunky than plugging an engine that deals badly with varying RPM and torque directly to a variable load. | | |
| ▲ | otabdeveloper4 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > Fill the dry sunny areas with solar and batteries. Fill the windy areas with wind turbines and treat anyone opposing this with the same contempt as people vandalizing paintings "for the climate" The environmental impact of solar and wind turbines is huge, much greater than coal or nuclear. (By "environmental impact" I mean "natural habitat destruction", not "my property values went down because the air is icky".) | | |
| ▲ | raverbashing 3 days ago | parent [-] | | > The environmental impact of solar and wind turbines is huge, much greater than coal or nuclear. See, this is the kind of BS boomers come up with to justify the current idiocy and that other boomers will eat hook, line and sinker without any critical thought Pray what kind of "environmental destruction" putting solar panels in the desert will cause that shadows actually digging the soil for coal? The fact that a coal plant emits more radiation than a nuclear plant should be sufficient to establish how much of a BS this fact it But I know, some people think training AI in space is cheaper, some will believe anything they're paid enough to believe (I obviously am in favour of nuclear plants and your statement might be correct in part there) | | |
| ▲ | otabdeveloper4 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > Pray what kind of "environmental destruction" putting solar panels in the desert will cause that shadows actually digging the soil for coal? Habitats of desert animals will be destroyed and they will go exinct. (But humans don't live in the desert and desert animals hold no cultural significance, so who cares, amirite?) > The fact that a coal plant emits more radiation than a nuclear plant Irrelevant. Chernobyl was the best thing to happen to Europe's biodiversity in centuries. | |
| ▲ | JackSlateur 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Do you know why we do not put much solar panels in the desert ? Because we do not live in the desert, and moving electricity is terrible (loss is insane) |
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| ▲ | kubb 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It already does. Ask it if trickle down economics works, or what are the benefits of economic redistribution and how it’s different from socialism. The problem is that people’s don’t use it for what it’s good for, but they try to make it code and play chess, because they can’t accept that it can’t think (yet). |
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| ▲ | Roark66 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I hope this is irony. If not you could write the same with little changes about the steam engine. It is a technological advance same as every one prior to it. Those that embrace it and use it will come out on top (not without personal risks of having your own skills atrophy). Others will loose. Just like every person doing horse stables work when automobiles became widely used. |
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| ▲ | girvo 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Except this isn't the steam engine or the internal combustion engine/the car, it's tech, and it replaces most jobs rather than just a few. If you take its future promise as true (I do not, but for sake of argument lets pretend it is as powerful as you're saying), then it's impact is on a completely different scale and ability than even industrialisation. Its silly to retreat to "no one shoes horses anymore" platitudes as if this tool isn't widly more capable (again, if we take its future promise as written) and disruptive. | | |
| ▲ | rightbyte 4 days ago | parent [-] | | So we have in the big shifts: Agriculture workers, became industry workers. (Mechanized agriculture). Industry workers, became service and white collar workers. (Automatization). I don't see a sector for white collar workers to shift to now. Even more service workers? There is room in the serf and capitalist classes though. Hopefully we end up in the later rather than former. But there is a need for political reform to open up the later I guess. 3 day work week and so on the lower the lowering pressure on wages. Progressive corp. tax? But I don't see that happening in the US. |
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