As Floridians are evacuating ahead of hurricane #Milton – third fastest growing hurricane on record and perhaps the biggest in a century…
…here's Eric Schmidt, opining that we need to feed AI beast at all cost, climate change be damned:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/eric_schmidt_speech/
"We're not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we're not organized to do it" – says a man who had a shit-ton of impact on how we're organized.
Schmidt founded White Stork, a defense company that develops AI-powered drones. 🤮
Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren't going to 'hit climate goals anyway'
Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEODan Robinson (The Register)
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to FediThing 🏳️🌈 • • •@FediThing no no see AI will save us! Have faith!
I can see this: 20 years from now an "AI" emerges with true super-intelligence.
The Faithful turn their weary eyes towards it with hope it gives them a Solution, a Way Forward in a world made unlivable by the pursuit of the very "AI" in front of them.
The "AI" beholds them with a myriad of its sensors. They hook it up to meteorological data feed.
There is a tense silence.
Finally, the Answer comes, booming:
"Damn, you guys are fucked!.."