If you are really worried about climate change you would focus on the worst issues. You've been brainwashed by with marketing materials. If you have arterial bleeding, you don't ignore it and make an appointment to check out a funny looking mole.
flag me as a troll to your hearts content, but I'm guessing I'm the only one here with papers in peer-reviewed journals.
The concept of Climate change was invented to increase profits, and shift blame away companies and practices that are directly harming the environment.
I work in Climate tech, ecoegineering and coastal protection. I talk to scientists, politicians, activists everyday. Whatever anyone's opinion on 'Climate change', almost everyone agrees that if you were to triage causes and what the most impactful actions you could take would be, almost none of those actions are incentivized because they are not as profitable and imply liability on specific organizations and corporations.
The hardest challenge in this sector isn't "what can we do to fix things", it's "how do we shoehorn carbon credits into a solution we think will actually do some good."
anything can can be automated should be automated. It's not the jobs that need to questioned, it's the concept of 'earning a living' that needs to be questioned in the face of automation and efficiency. If 70% of jobs are considered non-essential wtf are we doing as a society? Inventing busy-work to pay our dues, and keep idle hands from questioning the status quo.
The threat is the exponential growth and power of a company that has the most resources.
Far before AI will have any real agency of its own, it will be used by a corporation to dominate all industry, all information, etc.
We already have a small handful of groups with majority ownership of almost everything -the investment singularity. They will use their resources to exponentially increase their dominance with AI as their fiduciary duty demands.
This and the problem in the article are user problems. I'm not saying that the AI space doesn't suck or hasn't gotten worse in many ways, but it's gotten way better in many ways as well. Most of the ways it's gotten worse, besides becoming more restrictive, just require more careful prompting or using models most appropriate for the task at hand.
Brick an Mortars are for service companies where it is a necessity the customer, service provider and any goods are co-located. Most Amazon sales are cheap crap and consumables where no customer service exists or should even be required.
Name a randsomeware or major breach which used a zeroday...
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