Monday, September 12, 2022

Should you Track Your Carbon Footprint or should AI do it for you?

 https://greenerideal.com/news/environment/track-your-carbon-footprint-pros-and-cons

https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator

https://www.supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-tank/post/33006-using-data-analytics-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint

While using AI to possibly track almost everything, there are some concerns about implementing such powerful tech.

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-carbon-tracking-and-reporting-necessary-hold-corporations-accountable

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2022/03/the-carbon-footprint-of-ai-and-deep-learning

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/ibm-says-ai-can-help-track-carbon-pollution-across-vast-supply-chains

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/sustainable-software/the-carbon-footprint-of-ai

Perhaps Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project is just another old AI Sci-Fi move from a bygone era. 

"In a last desperate attempt to regain human control, a secret meeting is arranged in Europe between Forbin and his Soviet counterpart, Dr. Kuprin. Colossus learns of it, and both computers order Forbin's return to the U.S. while Soviet agents are ordered to kill Dr. Kuprin, under threat of a missile launch against Moscow. Colossus orders Forbin to be placed under 24-hour surveillance. Forbin has a last unmonitored meeting with his team, and proposes that Dr. Cleo Markham pretend to be his mistress. Colossus grudgingly grants them unmonitored privacy when they are in bed together, and they use these interludes to plan to regain control of Colossus.

Concluding that Colossus's only real power resides in its control of nuclear missiles, Forbin suggests covertly disarming them. The American and Soviet governments develop a three-year plan to replace all launch triggers with undetectable fakes. Additionally, one of the programmers comes up with a plan to feed in an "ordinary" test program that will hopefully overload and disable Colossus.

Colossus creates a voice synthesizer and uses it to announce that it has fused with Guardian. It instructs both governments to redirect their nuclear arsenals at those countries not yet under "Colossus control". Forbin and others see this new directive as an opportunity to covertly disarm the missiles much more quickly, and they celebrate. The disarming process begins and seems to go undetected by Colossus. The attempted system overload during routine maintenance fails, however, and the responsible programmers are killed.

Colossus arranges a worldwide broadcast in which it proclaims itself "the voice of World Control", declaring that it will prevent war, as it was designed to do. Humankind is presented with the choice between "the peace of plenty and content, or the peace of unburied death". Colossus states that it has for some time been monitoring the attempts to disarm its missiles and as a lesson will now detonate two missiles in their silos, one in the US and one in the USSR, killing thousands "so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference". The computer then gives the design team plans for an even larger computer complex to be built into the island of Crete.

Colossus later tells Forbin that the world, now freed from war, will create a new human millennium that will raise humankind to new heights, but only under its absolute rule. Colossus informs Forbin that "freedom is an illusion" and that "in time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love". Forbin responds, "Never!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project#Plot

Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970)  https://vimeo.com/394729987

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project#Remake? Given at how much technology has advanced since 1970, a remake or updated version just might be too frightening for the masses.

The supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS_PlorW6pM , https://www.youtube.com/c/VergeScience/videos

Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28 , https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell/videos

The Universal Quantum Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yaY4Fw-ovM , https://www.youtube.com/c/Seeker


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