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mermaidrampage t1_j6vkmel wrote

Reply to ‘This is greenwashing’: Shell accused of overstating renewable energy spending by pipsdontsqueak

I'm genuinely conflicted about how I feel about Shell and other oil companies getting into the renewable field. While I agree it's necessary and they have the funding to do it, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth given that they're certainly only doing it because other companies and paved the way to make it a profitable business. Plus the fact that all the money they're dumping into carbon capture is essentially just allowing them to make more money to store the carbon emissions generated by the oil that they produced (and profited heavily off of)...the same oil which created those emissions in the first place. Simultaneously fucked and deviously brilliant when you think about it.

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9-11GaveMe5G t1_j6v9l3c wrote

Reply to Google is asking employees to test potential ChatGPT competitors, including a chatbot called 'Apprentice Bard' by No-Drawing-6975

This isn't just internal. Research at Google has an app in the play store called AI Test Kitchen. I've used it, and it's... not great. The format is for specific things, like describing a place you say or giving you a list of tasks to reach a stated goal. The descriptor type is decent, but the task list is awful. It frequently includes the goal as a subtask, much like "draw the rest of the fucking owl." It's interesting but based on what I've seen it's not there, nor close. Could be they don't want to publicly tip their hand yet, since this is a public (wait-listed) version. Time will tell.

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