If you don’t like AI switch off now!

[Paul M]

Ye

Its not only AI that uses data centres, so do telcos, the internet etc maybe we should turn off all our tech and go back to carrier pigeons. That would create jobs cleaning up the poop.

Yes, but pigeon poop is actually good for the environment as fertiliser. A redundant computer is about as good for the environment as a nuclear bomb

 

[Rhinochugger]

Ye
Yes, but pigeon poop is actually good for the environment as fertiliser.

In small doses - it's very rich in one chemical and can be too rich.

However, it's a bit like AI - you can't put the genie back in the bottle

 

[playmofire]

God help us, as soon as AI realises there is something 'not quite right' with humanity.....

Let's face it...
'We' have pretty much b*gg*er*d up the Mother-Ship Earth..

PhilP.

So why b*gg*r it up more?

I've amended this as I had used the word in full, but realise that this may cause offence. Few people know that the meaning of "b*gg*r" as used here means to be awkward or disruptive and date back to an early Church synod which tried to mediate on the differences between the Eastern, Orthodox churches and the Western, Roman churches. Agreement on an understanding seemed to be in reach but the Bulgarian church objected at the last minute and the whole thing came to nothing. From this "to bulgar" came to mean to be awkward or to cause something to fail and, like a number of words, the letter "l" eventually dropped out of being pronounced and the spelling also changed. The word has nothing to do with public school practices, alleged or otherwise.

 

[playmofire]

Errrrrrr....

So do an increasingly large proportion of the human beings!


PhilP.

Yes, but I think that when people read something written by a human being they may have a more questioning attitude to what they are reading. At one time, the old adage was "if it's in the papers, it must be true"; now it's ''if it's on the internet it must be true" but it often isn't.