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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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[-] eatthecake@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

They think they're going to build a god to save us all. In the form of a perfectly rational machine (in their view), the perfect authoritarian. A mysterious algorithm noone can understand that must be correct because it's made of mathematics. I'm a little freaked out.

[-] rook@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago

They’re rebranding American Christian milenaranism. Much like the second coming and/or the rapture, the AGI god will be here Real Soon Now, so please pay your tithes and trust that the church fathers are doing the right thing.

Much like the older cults it mirrors, it isn’t capable of delivering on its promises, but it is capable of doing substantial amounts of regular damage in the meantime, and that’s the only thing worth freaking out about.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

Jesus 2.0 is an AI, and he's American

[-] samiamsam@mastodon.social 4 points 1 week ago

@dgerard @rook

there are no white people in the bible

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