AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3°C much faster than previously expected

phys.org AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3°C much faster than previously expected

Three leading climate scientists have combined insights from 10 global climate models and, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), conclude that regional warming thresholds are likely to be reached faster than previously estimated.

Three leading climate scientists have combined insights from 10 global climate models and, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), conclude that regional warming thresholds are likely to be reached faster than previously estimated.

Mmmm faster then expected huh ?

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AI (while consuming immense amounts of energy, generated by fossil fuels and potable water): "I'm helping!"
- It's not AI. It's an application of machine learning.
  
  Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence. AI is a very broad term, using the dictionary definition. It might not be what you consider AI of course.
  
  ML has never been considered AI.
  Marketing teams realized that LLMs let MLs sound like HAL from Space Odyssey and started calling it intelligent and using AI as a buzzword.
  
  Even chess programs are in the field of artificial intelligence. That's what research into AI began with in the fifties. The term AI as defined by the dictionaries is ridiculously broad.
  It's probably better to talk about an artificial mind if you mean real intelligence.
- Using AI to replace a search is wasteful, to do climate research? Nah, this is a bad take.
  
  Partly a joke. The mass use of LLMs by corpo entities is objectively accelerating climate change for the explicit purpose of making people's lives worse.

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