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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe they could have described the assignment better. Like "Solve Climate change without killing the majority of the world population" or something.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why the fantasy of asking AI to solve global warming will either end up with no benefit (possible) or with us being converted to carbon-neutral paperclips.

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I understood the paperclips reference! :D

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ChatGPT, how can we solve climate change?

Okay! Climate change is the largely man-made phenomenon of the Earth's temperature gradually increasing, leading to more severe weather events and mass species extinctions. To solve climate change, here's what you should do: plan that only vaguely helps on the individual level assuming it's coherent at all

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That's really on the oversight committee.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe it eats plastic waste, absorbes three forests worth of carbon, and shits gold?

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or maybe it eats people. Arguably way more effective.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

That's right. "Reduce" is the first priority on "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", after all.

Only one of those features would help with the climate and marginally so.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like it, he looks like the alien from Pitch Black

[–] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I know Vin Diesel is a unique character but that's harsh.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, no scientist ever has dedicated their lives to fighting climate change.

They're all fucking around doing things they weren't told to do by their obviously even keeled superiors.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the joke is that he is solving climate change by releasing a monster to kill humanity.

[–] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I interpreted it a bit differently. He made the sharkpeople so we can inhabit the rising oceans, in a way. Climate change isn't getting solved, so might as well force us to adapt.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like this and you might be right because there is no indication in the last panel that the creature is attacking them.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yet we're still waiting for cat girls?

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Basically, FEV.

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is literally the backstory of Blue Submarine No. 6

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I remember watching this when I was 9 years old and feeling vaguely traumatized.