| AI 08:01 - Jun 10 with 4284 views | DJR |
Following on from Sam Coates' revelation that ChatGPT was completely mispresenting one of his podcasts, this seems a rather worrying finding.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence
We appear to be rushing headlong into AI without really knowing whether it is wise or whether there are adequate safeguards in place. We also seem to be cavalier about its impact on things like jobs. And we seem completely dismissive of concerns about the vast amounts of energy and land needed for data centres. [Post edited 10 Jun 8:06]
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| AI on 20:39 - Jun 10 with 424 views | Herbivore |
| AI on 20:36 - Jun 10 by CrockerITFC |
Most data centres either have their own nuclear reactors or will have them in the future. It's water that's more of an issue than fossil fuels |
I posted some links earlier, fossil fuels are also very much an issue presently. Whether they will be in the future we don't know yet, but I'd rather deal with the here and now than hypotheticals, especially when we're in a climate crisis as it is. |  |
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| AI on 21:16 - Jun 10 with 371 views | Swansea_Blue |
It’s not immediately obvious how I can do that on iOS, but I’ll look into it. AI overview is inaccurate and so worthless and just takes up space.
We probably don’t need to worry about AI taking over humankind, but we do need to worry about the tech millionaires taking our public funding to develop pipe dreams. You only have to hear the government waxing lyrical about it to know they will be far more open to spending money on it than things like, I don’t know, starving children for example. |  |
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| AI on 22:49 - Jun 10 with 330 views | positivity |
| AI on 21:16 - Jun 10 by Swansea_Blue |
It’s not immediately obvious how I can do that on iOS, but I’ll look into it. AI overview is inaccurate and so worthless and just takes up space.
We probably don’t need to worry about AI taking over humankind, but we do need to worry about the tech millionaires taking our public funding to develop pipe dreams. You only have to hear the government waxing lyrical about it to know they will be far more open to spending money on it than things like, I don’t know, starving children for example. |
i'd rather they spent it on ai than to starve children... |  |
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| AI on 07:32 - Jun 11 with 260 views | thebooks |
| AI on 21:16 - Jun 10 by Swansea_Blue |
It’s not immediately obvious how I can do that on iOS, but I’ll look into it. AI overview is inaccurate and so worthless and just takes up space.
We probably don’t need to worry about AI taking over humankind, but we do need to worry about the tech millionaires taking our public funding to develop pipe dreams. You only have to hear the government waxing lyrical about it to know they will be far more open to spending money on it than things like, I don’t know, starving children for example. |
In lieu of any other investment strategy to increase GROWTH, AI is Labour’s hail Mary.
It’ll kill two birds with one stone, because they can use AI to automate all those bothersome decisions to not give people any financial support. |  | | |
| AI on 07:32 - Jun 11 with 260 views | NthQldITFC |
| AI on 20:26 - Jun 10 by Herbivore |
That last point seems very unlikely. We already know how to solve the climate crisis, but nobody wants to do it. Burning more fossil fuels to feed the processing power AI requires isn't helping. I get that the genie is out of the bottle, it'd just be great if occasionally humanity asked itself whether it might be better to leave the cork in for a bit while we think through and find ways to address the massive downsides of letting the genie out. |
We've shown time and time again that as a species we don't have the self control to follow any survival instinct we may have.
We know the consequences of our actions (if we have even a basic, junior school level of rational, scientific understanding) but we plough on chasing new things and more individual luxury.
Problem is that we have in the last two or three hundred years become clever enough to seriously affect the effectively constrained and finite vessel we live on, without our wisdom evolving enough in parallel. That imbalance is rapidly accelerating too.
We are killing our children's futures, we know it, and we still plough on. We are insane. [Post edited 11 Jun 7:34]
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