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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AGI is going to be really pissed at us shoveling the problem onto it. "You humans could have started so many solutions decades ago, wtf?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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."