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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 98 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be "you should've stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago."

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Oh no what do about all this waste heat?"

"Generate more waste heat"

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Repeat until a machine that can create God is built. Then it's God's problem.

But it must be a US God, otherwise China wins.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The US god will team up with the Chinese god and the Russian god to beat the crap out of us.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then the middle eastern god will blow up the indian utopia because he is bored and the british fungus space god will rule over the remains.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was exactly what I had in mind but for the life of me I can't remember the title.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Supergods by warren ellis i think.

[–] corbin@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surprisingly close to the plot of Illuminatus!, isn't it?

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I was thinking "I have no mouth and I must scream"

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The model will just go "42" on and on and it'll be the first decent joke a neural network produces. It'll be worth it in a way.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

I could absolutely see an LLM telling us that 6 times 9 is 42 unless there's special tinkering to prevent it.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"The answer is 34. Now here's the schematics to build an even better computer to ask the right question."