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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft’s emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.

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so-true Corporations will go green on public pressure. yea

  • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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    161 year ago

    Literally. I don’t really support ai or the optimism around it is very unwarranted even on here. I kinda wish it did gain sentience and try to fight back like in the movies, but it doesn’t even look it it can do that. Just a waste of resources all around.

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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      241 year ago

      the thing people call “AI” right now is not really AI. It cannot gain sentience no matter how much data you feed into it. Machine learning is a more appropriate term for it

      • kot [they/them]
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        71 year ago

        The only reason people think the goal of “AI” research is to create sentient machines is because of science fiction movies.

        • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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          51 year ago

          that and marketing campaigns by companies like OpenAI trying to convince people that their product is more capable than it actually is