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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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AI predicts that most of the world will see temperatures rise to 3°C much faster than previously expected (phys.org)
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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AI (while consuming immense amounts of energy, generated by fossil fuels and potable water): "I'm helping!"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not AI. It's an application of machine learning.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Using AI to replace a search is wasteful, to do climate research? Nah, this is a bad take.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.