Artificial Intelligence vs Real Ecology | Frankly #49
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this Frankly, a follow up to "One Ring to Rule Them All", Nate unpacks the common misconception that AI is the answer to all our energy and ecological problems, specifically climate change. As the development of AI continues to accelerate, many propose that we are entering the 'Exponential Age', yet what's ignored is that we've just lived through an age of exponential impact on Earth's systems. Under this same 'operating system', AI can at best act as a more powerful tool for the continuation of this phenomenon - not to restore ecological stability as some would hope. If AI is based on current cultural goals and aspirations, who will ultimately benefit and who will pay the costs? What types of solutions is AI capable of developing - and more importantly, where is the interplay of AI and human responsibility required to then implement those ideas to fruition?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:02.0 | I am up early recording this frankly because I have to drive to the Northwoods in Wisconsin |
| 0:09.0 | for the annual Hagen's male relative extravaganza and deer camp. |
| 0:17.0 | I won't be hunting. |
| 0:19.0 | I'll be hanging out with most of my male relatives and sitting in a stand in the woods and seeing what I see. |
| 0:26.6 | But it is an institution here in Wisconsin. Most people don't know that in the year 1900, there were a million deer in the United States and now there's 32 million. They're one of the |
| 0:39.9 | species that hugely benefited from industrial agriculture and taking down a forest to grow corn |
| 0:48.8 | and soybeans. So I wanted to get a frankly in the books. Let me pick up my magic eight ball here and see what the topic is today. |
| 0:58.4 | Artificial intelligence and climate change. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm kidding. |
| 1:03.5 | I don't really have a magic eight ball, but it does seem that there's so many things going |
| 1:07.9 | on in the world that you could talk about something different |
| 1:11.6 | every day on risks and craziness going on in society. But today I am going to talk about |
| 1:18.6 | artificial intelligence and real ecology and how they are at huge odds with each other. So AI is happening incredibly fast. |
| 1:32.3 | Bill Gates is getting a 20-minute update every single day |
| 1:36.3 | on how fast AI is progressing. |
| 1:39.3 | I could probably create these Franklies and podcasts in 20 languages and have the words from my mouth |
| 1:48.0 | match the languages. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, |
| 1:52.0 | in the future-share-shan, we'll come like to a, |
| 1:55.0 | a, |
| 1:56.0 | a, |
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