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Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30%
(www.bloomberg.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
WHO is asking for AI chatbots/assistants to be in everything they use? WHO?
This feels like 3D TV all over again - where the industry tried relentlessly to convince us all we wanted it for a few years, to a collective "meh."
A lot of people are asking for AI. Mostly I run in programmer circles and the amount of people there going crazy for AI to enter everything so it can do everything for them is insane. This leeches across to tech savvy people who don't understand the mechanics of it, but they see the programmers going bananas and so they want in on it too.