Only because there was a viable alternative that does the exact same job. AI is both the technology and the goal, it’s a billionaire money printing circlejerk
only after years of kicking and screaming, and companies that made CFCs switched to more expensive HFCs and later HFOs so it’s not like they went out of the business. (alternative is use of hydrocarbons which is much cheaper but flammability was used as a reason to restrict their use) CFCs are also still used as chemical intermediates and as late as during covid there was an operational illegal R12 factory somewhere in northern china
CFCs.
Only because there was a viable alternative that does the exact same job. AI is both the technology and the goal, it’s a billionaire money printing circlejerk
only after years of kicking and screaming, and companies that made CFCs switched to more expensive HFCs and later HFOs so it’s not like they went out of the business. (alternative is use of hydrocarbons which is much cheaper but flammability was used as a reason to restrict their use) CFCs are also still used as chemical intermediates and as late as during covid there was an operational illegal R12 factory somewhere in northern china
That one was about commercialization, not research (which is the issue around dangerous AI)