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I think AI has a huge amount of positive potential, but it needs to be harnessed properly.
Is that before or after it pushes Carbon emission reduction efforts back 20 years (which, in case you hadn't noticed, were already going far too slowly)
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Last year the UK's carbon omissions were the lowest since 1879.
There's clearly more to be done, especially in relation to data centres, but that work is ongoing. As an example, AWS' Graviton servers are up to 40% more energy efficient than their predecessors. We can argue all day long about how we should be using precious resources, but like it or not, the modern world is heavily reliant on data centres and will continue to be so.
andyp
Copyright is a pile of bollocks though.
I'm not naive enough to believe the PR either, but I do see very intelligent people working on this on a daily basis. A lot of thought is going in to how AI will be trained and deployed and what safeguards need to be in place, and most of that work is collaborative and done in conjunction with government.
Human progress has always come at a cost, but usually it's a short term cost than benefits more people in the long term. I think AI has a huge amount of positive potential, but it needs to be harnessed properly.