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> A new artificial intelligence-based weather model can deliver 15-day forecasts with unrivaled accuracy and speed, a Google lab said, with potentially life-sav
by latexr 2y ago
> A new artificial intelligence-based weather model can deliver 15-day forecasts with unrivaled accuracy and speed, a Google lab said, with potentially life-saving applications as climate change ramps up.
How hilariously dystopian. Instead of spending energy/power/influence to mitigate/solve/revert the problem, they’re actively making it worse to in the name of predicting how bad it’s going to be (to try and save themselves, which will ultimately fail).
- whamlastxmas 2y agoBlaming climate change on AI seems like a stretch
- latexr 2y agoThat’s not what I said, and taking the argument in good faith would make it obvious. Of course AI isn’t to blame for climate change, it started way before this craze and there isn’t one single culprit. But the energy consumption doesn’t help, and burning more fossil fuels to power this energy-hungry systems makes it worse, that’s the point. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366592778/Microsoft-and-Googles-GHG-emissions-gains-call-viability-of-net-zero-targets-into-question https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366592778/Microsoft-and-...
- 93po 2y agoi think the point is that we have to pick and choose our battles, everything has an impact, but i think the impact of AI in terms of positives has incredible, massive upside given the negative externalities of the power generation used to power it. sure, bitcoin is stupid, let's not do that. on the list of common sense things we should do to combat climate change, energy used for AI is like #100, especially considering the big names are trying to use nuclear ASAP to power it in a clean way
- 123yawaworht456 2y agoeach time you use your computing device to make a comment on the internet, you're emitting CO2 and accelerating climate change.
- latexr 2y agoDo you understand that degree matters? Or do you think that pissing once in a river is as harmful as dumping a thousand litres of toxic waste in it? https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ I could live hundreds of lifetimes and not consume as much energy as Google has this year alone. https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-and-microsoft-now-each-consume-more-power-than-some-fairly-big-countries https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-and-microsoft-now-each-...
- qudat 2y agoWhat a weird take. How is google using that much energy? Is it just for their own operations or are they providing a good or service that billions are consuming? By using a computer you are a consumer and are complicit. Your overall contribution might be small but it’s the same exact behavior that is absolutely part of the climate change problem.
- latexr 2y agoYou have zero knowledge of my consumption or my life. You also know nothing about my environmental care or actions. You’re extrapolating from my use of a computer to post comments to assume my use of energy is a net negative, which is as bad faith as it is wrong. It is possible to live in such a way that you reduce your impact to a minimum in some areas and then do a net positive in other. Additionally, the number of people who consume Google’s services is irrelevant. Millions of people consume tobacco products too, it doesn’t make it positive.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agostop posting, bro - you're literally killing the planet. turn off your device and send it away to be recycled, so someone else's descendants 100 years from now will have a few extra grams of copper. dig a hole somewhere in the wilderness and live out the rest of your life consuming nothing but grass and rainwater for sustenance. also try to breathe in moderation - you exhale CO2 every time, bringing the doomsday a bit closer, inch by inch.