Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming - eviltoast
“We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway…” says former Google chief Eric Schmidt.
  • AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    2 months ago

    All that extra processing power for the AI to just say: “you should have listened to the scientists years ago”.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      100% this. We fucking know what the solution is. AI will reach the same conclusion as we have; decarbonise everything. It’s the implementation that’s hard, not the idea.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Oh to hear the AI give us the “well I guess you should have thought of THAT before you did something WRONG” line that some humans use to dehumanize others.

    • ratel@mander.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I imagine the likely conclusion of it would come up with would be something like “decrease the size of the human population”.