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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's some proper out of this Universe, Narnia level thinking from Eric!

What's next? Climate Change will be solved if enough children ask it as a present from Santa Claus?

Or maybe something involving the Tooth Fairy. Eric seems like a Tooth Fairy guy rather than a Santa Claus guy.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it's amazing how he spouts all this gibbering insanity in this calm rational-sounding engineer explaining things voice

[–] corbin@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

Your phrasing reminded me that he was one of the principal authors of lex back when he was a whelp.