| same, as someone getting a degree in the climate/energy field this particular bullet point makes me cringe: "How can we address the sustainability of AI, particularly regarding energy and water use, in regions with scarce resources?" imo this is putting the cart before the horse and speaks to the overall state of the tech industry now...
Instead of "How can we address the sustainability of PEOPLE", we first ask, "How can we address the sustainability of AI" wtf lol. We have plenty of evidence, research, textbooks, and to their point, indigenous knowledge, to do it ourselves, but they think its best to just feed it all into an AI, hope that the AI will spit back out something that solves these problems, all the while trying to make this AI more sustainable because resources are so scarce that even the people don't have enough. not trying to say this initiative is simply pandering to disenfranchised groups or PR stunt but i don't think they are serious about actual change. now im wondering if im getting pranked and this is really a test of llm/ai generated "tech event" to harvest registrant info. strange times indeed |