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Google is also not Living Up To Carbon Emissions Promises
Like Microsoft, Google claims it will still run all of this using clean energy by 2030. However, the current emissions data do not indicate that this is possible. The need for energy will not go down, and these companies will not walk away from the trillions of dollars invested in AI already.
This is happening while we watch the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane because of the extremely warm water temperatures in the Atlantic.
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Linked – The Real AI Revolution Will Be Invisible
That doesn’t mean we won’t make a mess of things getting there. Some employers will go through rounds of layoffs, hoping to replace workers with AI writers, photographers, coders, etc. Plenty of companies will rush to add something they can call “AI” to their products to look innovative, and everyone will stumble along learning what AI might be useful for.
Then, we’ll end up using the AI built into all the same tools we use now.
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Linked – Return to Office, Return to Sexual Harassment?
The article offers some suggestions on educating your employees about harassment and what you should be doing with programs, but I want to get brutally honest here.
What workplace hasn’t already held a sexual harassment seminar? Is it making any difference? Not when you tell me that remote work was the most effective way to lower incidences of harassment. Essentially, keeping people away from each other was the only way we found to significantly dent the overall statistics.
Want to know what would make a dent? Fire people. On the spot. Publicly. The first time it happens.
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Linked – Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
This should not surprise anyone.
I can think of a few reasons why this should not have surprised anyone at Dell.
