The question you should ask is “how do we get people to give a shit enough to be slightly inconvenienced in order to stop destroying humanity’s future?”.

It’s hard ebough to convince people to eat plant based for a single say, or to offset a single car ride with their bike.

Yet we need the majority of people (and any corporations they run) to make a real effort, when they are too lazy, ignorant, uninterested, unmotivated, unwilling, too entitled, or narcissistic to take action.

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All these LLMs should be required to show you the power costs and the CO2 emissions for every response they generate. If “AI” is the latest reason why we’re going to blow right past the 2.5c point, the real costs of using them should be right in every user’s face.

We’ve known the solutions for decades.

AI isn’t going to do shit about the fact that the real problem is human institutions dragging their feet on the matter because they’d rather not deal with the immediate expenses and downsides of doing something about climate change.

Well, every time we ask questions we waste many liters of water (and energy, which is more heat) when you could just use a search engine to find what scientists said 30 years ago. 😆

ChatGPT isn’t going to give us a sentence that simply solves the climate crisis (other than “Hey fucks, use less energy”) but AI can absolutely be used to minimize energy use in some real ways by using prediction to control when generators go on and off and disable devices when they aren’t useful.

ChatGPT is pretty fucking dumb and ill-suited to this purpose but ML algorithms have and will continue to be rolled out to try and reduce wasted energy… still, we need more dramatic action to address climate change at this point.

The problem is that ChatGPT is not capable of original ideas. When you see AI, you (and the bulk of the population) think Artificial Intelligence, but what you should be thinking is Assumed Intelligence.

If you open up a mobile phone keyboard and tap the next suggested word repeatedly, you’re doing exactly the same as a large language model like ChatGPT, just much slower and with a tiny dataset.

And just like an autopredict keyboard can spout nonsense, so can ChatGPT. It’s euphemistically called hallucinations, but really it’s just grammatically correct gibberish.

This post can be pickled cause it’s salty as hell!! And I’m here for it!

they know how to stop it, they don’t want…

You know what? You’re right: Put this on the news. AI said it, so finally we know what to do. Let’s get to it. Hell, make it a Blockchain AI or whatever buzzword you need to make people listen to what we know since the 80ies.