It has been careful to maintain this reputation even as it hasn’t stopped promoting AI for fossil fuel extraction. You can easily find evidence of its engagements with the O&G industry before 2020. After 2020? These mentions focus only on the transition to net zero. 10/
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AI as Game Changer for Oil and Gas Extraction Optimization
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One such pathway? Using generative algorithms to model oil and gas reservoirs and maximize their extraction. “AI is truly the game changer and the key for the industry to continue to be competitive,” Microsoft’s oil & gas exec said to 200+ employees. 7/
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Microsoft leverages OpenAI relationship to pitch AI to Chevron
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Microsoft also dangles its relationship with OpenAI. An executive strategy memo from June 2023 showed that Microsoft wanted to pitch Chevron, with which it has multiple deals including one over $1B, on adopting OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 & GPT-4 to “deliver more business value.” 8/
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Microsoft’s Major Oil and Gas Market Opportunity Worth Billions
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This is big business for Microsoft. Internal employee reports estimate the O&G industry represents a market opportunity of between $35 billion to $75 billion – especially notable with the pressures Microsoft faces to continually show payoffs to its massive AI investments. 5/
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Microsoft leverages genAI hype to secure energy industry contracts
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Microsoft has sought to leverage genAI hype to land more contracts. In Sept 2023, company execs noted that the energy industry was turning to Microsoft in a way that had perhaps “never happened before.” It needed to “maximize this opportunity” & “lay out the pathway” to genAI. 6/
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Microsoft’s analysis showed ExxonMobil could increase revenue by 1.4 billion
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Here’s an example: In a slide deck from Jan 2022, Microsoft prepared an analysis that said its tools could allow ExxonMobil to increase its annual revenue by 0.8%, or $1.4 billion—$600 million of which would come from optimizing its drilling. 4/
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Microsoft develops AI tools to optimize fossil fuel production
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Microsoft doesn’t just passively provide its services to these companies. It develops bespoke AI-enhanced tools for them, which it also markets to them as for the explicit purpose of optimizing and automating drilling, and maximizing fossil-fuel production. 3/
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Refugee family loses $17k in elaborate scam using deepfake deception
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A devastating story about an elaborate scam that cost a refugee family $17k that includes this detail: As part of the ruse, the victim was duped into thinking a very real call from his wife was in fact a deepfake. The blurry line between fact & fiction preys on the vulnerable.
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ChatGPT Uses 10x More Electricity Than Google Search
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There's a stat from the IEA cited in this Goldman Sachs report that says a ChatGPT query needs on average 10 around 10x more electricity than a Google search. https://
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DAIR Institute Empowers Data Workers Through Participatory Research
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A phenomenal project: @DAIRInstitute invited data workers, the often abused & neglected lifeblood of the AI industry, to conduct their own research into their communities & write about it in their own words. This is true participatory AI. Visionary work.