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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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[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

It’s the parable of the drowning man turning away all help because god will save him, all over again (except it’s floods and mudslides and forest fires)

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

And when he dies, god tells him "I sent you two boats and a helicopter".

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Except in this case "god" would say "As a large language model, my purpose is to regurgitate a statistically passable stream of lexical tokens, not to rescue drowning people. Not exactly sure how you expected me to be capable of helping and that's really on you."

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