AI (while consuming immense amounts of energy, generated by fossil fuels and potable water): "I'm helping!"
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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It's not AI. It's an application of machine learning.
Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence. AI is a very broad term, using the dictionary definition. It might not be what you consider AI of course.
ML has never been considered AI.
Marketing teams realized that LLMs let MLs sound like HAL from Space Odyssey and started calling it intelligent and using AI as a buzzword.
Even chess programs are in the field of artificial intelligence. That's what research into AI began with in the fifties. The term AI as defined by the dictionaries is ridiculously broad.
It's probably better to talk about an artificial mind if you mean real intelligence.
Using AI to replace a search is wasteful, to do climate research? Nah, this is a bad take.
Partly a joke. The mass use of LLMs by corpo entities is objectively accelerating climate change for the explicit purpose of making people's lives worse.
Well, maybe if it says "AI predicts" (instead of "science", "climate models" etc), they might listen.
I hate to be that guy, but "they" (the people with power to change course) have absolutely listened and understood. They don't care.
Let me have this, Captain.
It is yours. 
in case you were worried this is alarmist,
34 regions are likely to exceed 1.5°C of warming by 2040.
The pattern from 2015 elnino saw no temperature since being below 2015 (or 2014 for that matter), with 2016 a recrod that stood until 2023. 2023 el nino, reached 1.5C, and 2024 is likely to set a new record. If the 2015/2016 pattern holds, 2030 or 2031 will be when we officially declare that "last 10 years have averaged over 1.5C" which is the IPCC threshold for 1.5.
Planet will not be getting cooler, or have less CO2 emissions. Even if energy transition accelerates, and China/India/EU have some hope to helping, forest fires and permafrost thaw won't stop at current temperature levels. War on Russia or Ukraine depending on your perspective is massive source of emissions, and eliminates any cooperation from Russia on climate, and more war is in the interest of oil producers, with little hope for less war. Sanctions/tariffs and counter sanctions is/will affect energy transition. Global recession is unlikely to boost forest management/fire fighting resources.
OP's targets for 1.5C being 9 years behind actual likely thresholds with no near term catalysts for annual co2 emissions even dropping to below 2ppm per year.
The 3C forecasts do have some time to mitigate, however.
Bit of a weird take. Yes, if we don't talk about global temperature then some parts will be cooler and some will be hotter.
tldr; Some regions will reach 3 degrees faster and some slower, by 2060