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submitted 10 months ago by sculd@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI.

"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," he said. "It motivates us to go invest more in fusion."

Right, surely the energy intensive AIs will make the world invest in climate-friendly energy instead of just burning more fossil fuels as they always did.

Also shows how unsustainable the current neoliberal system is.

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[-] sculd@beehaw.org 0 points 10 months ago

Absolutely. Just because Altman "wishes" a new energy breakthrough its not suddenly going to happen. And even if nuclear fusion succeed, applying them in real life in scale is another big problem...

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

And he wants it to succeed because he's invested money into it and wants to make more money, not because he cares about the environment.

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