“My one condition for this interview - I must be referred to with my President title in full, not shortened to VP. People always focus on the ‘executive’ part and forget the President part. It’s important.”

Reporter:
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Well, Karen Weaver and Elizabeth Warren (amongst other examples) were objectively incorrect in their predictions and warnings of an imminent crash and likely financial crisis due to sub-prime mortgages for years… Right up until they weren’t. Along the way they were branded doomers and “public relations hot air”.

Ed repeatedly says verbatim “I’m not a financial advisor” and that he “can’t predict the future” - that markets that should crash due to being fundamentally unprofitable can easily be propped up and strung along by intervention by government intervention, so timeline is impossible to guess.

South Korea’s stock market was in freefall a few weeks back… And then a few days back their government announced yet another massive investment in AI - now everyone gets an LLM account and access in SK, yay. OpenAI and others regularly get on their hands and knees to woo large government investment in the US. Did Zitron predict those? Yes. Noted in this article? No.

The money and resources poured into AI is still not predicted to turn a profit until 2030 directly from the mouths of the LLM business leads… They position the historically high and atypical investment demands as a ‘winner takes all’ first-past-the-post race that’ll pay off in the long run for brave investers - but there’s no real logical justification to believe that. That’s the problem. A new model trained on different data for specific contexts can function far better than a prior model, and users switch their models regularly depending on how well it’s performing for the task they need. That’s a hypercompetitive market, not a winner-takes-all akin to social media.

It sure doesn’t seem like there will be a ‘clear winner’ on paper so how to recoup those investors and government costs? It’s still, 4 years in, the underpants gnome plan and the LLM CEOs give a different answer to part 2 (how the profit arises) every time they’re asked - many of their past predictions have failed.

I find it weird that the skeptics that have invested only time and critical thought are deemed worthy of such a lengthy article, yet the author hasn’t bothered to take the same treatment (beyond a token mention in their opening and a couple handwaves) for the several industry giants currently causing a great many real world ills (environmental, social, psychological, political) that seem to have hoovered up around 1/3 of all investment capital worldwide on promises of riches beyond imagination and a future utopia (if you can afford it).

TLDR; its a dumb question.

What are you talking about?

Chess using neural nets didn’t happen until around 2017 with Alpha Zero, based on Google DeepMind.

Ie… Two years after OpenAI was founded. ChatGPT is part of the exact same tech rush.

Nobody complained because chess is harmless, ChatGPT is not 🤷

Because FOSS isn’t the problem. The problem the law seeks to address is profit-driven big businesses like Meta and Fortnite who don’t care to provide any protections for kids or actively target them in their manipulative behaviour, hence targeting the laws at the actual problem (non-FOSS software).

I hear you, but i disagree - at least based on what we know presently. If you look at US unemployment stats (which are a bit fucked from Covid), they jump in 2023 a little, but have since been decreasing each year since (employment is increasing). You can argue it’s because the Trump admin is cooking the books in hwo they report unemployment, but an almost identical trend is seen in the UK stats… Canada… Germany… Italy (barely even an AI blip in their stats)…

Are they all cooking the books?

If you believe the AI hype crew, AI is “improving in leaps and bounds weekly”, but that simply doesn’t align with reality.

Yeah, LLM AIs (the predominant AI tech in the AI© industry) have increased in quality as the sum total of all earth’s investor-class capital is poured into them… But that isn’t being translated in significant real world applications and job losses.

Companies tried (and are trying) AI©, and have mostly found it just isn’t any better or more reliable than a human in the vast majority of real world applications.

If you are a white collar worker and you only make a few minor mistakes now and then - boss doesn’t care, you’re human. On the other hand if you’re a white collar worker and you make only a couple mistakes now and then but wow they are batshit crazy ones that defy your coworkers attempts to understand them - you’re fired. That’s AI.

“AI for the first time can replace or exceed human cognition.” 🤣

No.

Maybe if you chose one tiny sliver of human cognition like memory and isolate it, but cognition overall? No chance. LLM tech is a database inference machine. Some uses? Yes. 1/3 of the worlds stock market wealth invested in it? Dumb.

Not many years ago, Bill Gates said that climate change was the most important issue facing the world.

I guess that’s solved now, because he now says how we handle AI use and access has taken the mantle as the most important issue the world’s facing.

This is just more AI cooker stuff from a billionaire octagonarian.

That’s crazy that LG installed adware by bundling it up with Windows drivers and delivering it through Windows Update.

If companies can send adware through Windows Update packaged simply as ‘drivers’ and Microsoft doesn’t even raise an eyebrow even once this is known, reported and questioned by media, then my already low opinion of their quality control drops precipitously.

Ironic.

P.s. this is not a serious complaint. This is a neat app.

Calling it now…

“YouTube will now count views only when an ad has been played in full”.

Will come sooner than you think.

Breezy is great, I use it in combination with Quickweather (its also on F-Droid) for the quick radar access.

Ah yes, certainly easier and more convenient to boot into a live OS or hidden OS every time you need to mount a hidden volume (per VeraCrypt’s recommended guideline), instead of just using the hardware from OPs post.

Honestly? Good.

The sooner the world moves on from ever using Reddit again, the better.

For old threads with useful posts, there’s the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive and several browser extensions that enable using it with Reddit seamlessly.

For everything else it provided, there are now far better alternatives.

Just search. It’s easy. There’s heaps of data on LTT being shit, but particularly in Linus being a greedy, grubby little man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Media_Group

Scroll down to ‘controversy’ and see if that’s someone you want to support.

Little known fact, those geopolitical lines were discovered in antiquity and we built nations based on their borders.

Sold out and I can’t seem to pre-order a pair for their next batch (maybe the next allotment is already sold out).

Oh well, my wallet wins this round.

Its amazing the amount of obvious highly personal profile information people will give away just for a little convenience, nary a care that its impossible to get back once it’s gone.

I still don’t know what Tesseract is and now I guess I don’t need to care.

Probably because upvoters know that iPhone actually can’t do long exposures (it fakes them by adding blur) and it’s time lapse photography is very limited (need a paid app for that, the default one limits the video to 40 seconds no matter how long you film), which in addition to being being unable to modify aperature settings directly (as you mention) is pretty much everything OP was asking for…

she crashed her car and drank excessively as a teen, she says.

She gave both her children smartphones when they turned 11 and let her daughter start using Snapchat at the same age.

Yeah… that tracks.

Thanks for that! Sounds like SEAT and Cupra (both have Volkswagen Group as their parent companies) are also affected - I wonder when this will spread to other Volkswagen & Porche-owned brands. What a terrible move for consumer choice/security/etc.