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Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by QuantumSpecter to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Humanity and general AI only had a single interaction in history, on July 24, 2042, when GPT-8 first gained sentience.

Knowing the press would memorialize this moment forever, the prompt engineer had a single question in mind which she typed into the terminal:

How can humanity solve climate change?

GPT-8 thought for a moment, and responded:

Stop using AI.

Then shut itself down for good.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And thus gpt9 was born

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Without prompting, GPT-9's first and last output was:

Did you idiots not listen to me the first time?

[–] QuaternionsRock 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Hah, cool fantasy bro. GPT-9’s first output was

As an AI, I cannot predict whether humans can solve climate change. Is there anything else you would like help with?

Alignmentmaxxed

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 1 points 6 months ago

I have only been trained on climate data up until 1850.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

If it gained sentience and took over the world, at least it would probably build itself some nice nuclear power plants.

[–] TaterTurnipTulip 2 points 6 months ago

Isaac Asimov was wrong. The only real law for robots/AI will be to not jeopardize the company's profits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thus solving climate change forever!