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Microsoft’s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30% (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 45 points 5 months ago (4 children)

WHO is asking for AI chatbots/assistants to be in everything they use? WHO?

This feels like 3D TV all over again - where the industry tried relentlessly to convince us all we wanted it for a few years, to a collective "meh."

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A lot of people are asking for AI. Mostly I run in programmer circles and the amount of people there going crazy for AI to enter everything so it can do everything for them is insane. This leeches across to tech savvy people who don't understand the mechanics of it, but they see the programmers going bananas and so they want in on it too.

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