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Offline Smokin Joe

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Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
« on: October 18, 2020, 11:01:20 pm »
Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry

https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/05/22/google-no-longer-build-ai-fossil-fuel-industry/

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Google has pledged to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry as it further distances itself from controversial developments.

A report from Greenpeace earlier this month exposed Google as being one of the top three developers of AI tools for the fossil fuel industry. Greenpeace found AI technologies boost production levels by as much as five percent.

In an interview with CUBE’s John Furrier, the leader of Google’s CTO office, Will Grannis, said that Google will “no longer develop artificial intelligence (AI) software and tools for oil and gas drilling operations.”

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While Google Cloud’s revenue from the oil and gas industry was declining, the public’s intolerance towards big polluters is increasing. The reputational damage caused to Google of continuing its relationship with polluters would likely have been more costly over the long-term.


Ahem. Just one thing to note. While oil and gas operations generate some well inspected and scrutinized pollution, it is the public which generates the exhaust every time it starts a car, rides a bus, buys something that came in by truck, boat, barge, or rail, (not to mention air freight).

Ironic, I know, that the "public" is the bigger polluter here.
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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2020, 06:08:22 am »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on October 19, 2020, 12:55:23 am
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Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
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Quote from: Smokin Joe on October 19, 2020, 06:08:22 am
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works ok now, thx
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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2020, 12:59:24 pm »
Fossil fuels industry pledges to no longer providd energy needs for Google.  Electricity to all their facilities should be cut by whatever fraction of total generation is supplied by oil/gas/coal.  Google should be prohibited from purchasing polymers, plastics, dielectrics, insulators, paints, or lubricants.  And their wealthy corporate execs can find something else to power their corporate jets with.
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Re: Google pledges to no longer build AIs for the fossil fuel industry
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2020, 10:27:47 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on October 19, 2020, 12:59:24 pm
Fossil fuels industry pledges to no longer providd energy needs for Google.  Electricity to all their facilities should be cut by whatever fraction of total generation is supplied by oil/gas/coal.  Google should be prohibited from purchasing polymers, plastics, dielectrics, insulators, paints, or lubricants.  And their wealthy corporate execs can find something else to power their corporate jets with.

You forgot the roads they drive one. No solar electricty powered the heavy machinery used to move the dirt and rocks and guess where asphalt comes from and how concrete is made?
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