Comment Re:No real surprises. (Score 1) 110
Student loans came in early 90s rather than mid - I'm from the first year ever to have them, and I gradated in 1992.
Where's the standard comparison to well known buildings? I thought it was required for such types of articles.
I'll add that the iconic Tokyo Tower, once the tallest structure in Tokyo, is 333m.
Bing tells me the empire state building is 453m.
That's pretty impressive for a windmill.
Speaking of language, I'm reminded of a Youtube video of some language nerd going around Rome speaking Latin to random people. (I forgot which strain of Latin--there are apparently a couple still currently used. It was something like the one used in church and one used in academia or something like that.)
It was everyday stuff like "How often do you come to the park?" He got >50% rate of regular folks understanding the gist of what he's saying and being able to respond. Of course, he could have edited it, but the apparent motivation was to figure out what the rate was, so it sounded legit.
I thought that was interesting.
That was my reaction as well. They'll be one of the last to be buried in the cesspool of AI crap. In fact, they may see the other countries being destroyed and maybe even successfully stop it in theirs.
I've been creating YouTube videos since 2006 or so and I have a cupboard with about 20TB of archived video and project files on external USB hard drives -- most of that has been created since I switched to recording in 4K about four years ago. With the move to 6K or even 8K raw footage, 30TB is *not* a lot of storage -- although I would be nervous about committing so much data to a single drive in a non-enterprise environment. At the very least you'd want a redundant RAID setup which would mean buying multiple of these drives.
Since my storage requirements don't mandate "online" storage, just archival, I'll stick with cheap USB-connected hard drives in the meantime where any loss is limited to about 4TB maximum.
YouTube's only concern these days is revenue and profit.
They breach their own community guidelines each and every day by running scam ads that continue to run despite hundreds or even thousand viewer-reports. Those ads run until the advertiser's spend is exhausted -- however if a creator (the life-blood of the platform) is falsely accused of "scams or deceptive practices" by YT's AI then they're gone in the blink of an eye.
They also allow AI spambots to post endless comments linking to porn pages/sites and claim that their AI can't automatically detect such things -- although that same AI, when unleashed on creator's videos, constantly demonetizes anything that is deemed to be unsuitable.
I hate the AI dross that is overwhelming YT as much as anyone but I really have doubts that YT intends to do anything effective to stem its flow. You see, so long as AI-generated videos are getting eyeballs on ads, YouTube will be happy because they'll be generating revenue and profits.
Let's face it, YouTube is actually *encouraging* the use of AI on its platform. AI suggests ideas for new videos and will create thumbnails for you. VEO3 will even create shorts or entire videos on demand. Google wants to sell its AI services and is pitching them at YouTube creators so they're not going to shoot themselves in the foot are they?
This is why I'm moving to self-hosting my own videos on an instance of PeerTube and I encourage other creators to do the same. When you self-host you have *FULL* control and you no longer have to worry about censorship or losing your entire community just because one of YT's AI bots has runamok and identifies your cute cat videos as CSAM.
As others have pointed out, so that they don't have to keep producing the old chip that is now "outdated". Everything else they will be producing will be M4 or later, so it makes sense to take advantage of the economies of scale.
Also, presumably, each iteration of their M series gets more power efficient for the same unit of computation, so they can get more battery life out of it, or even possibly get rid of the separate battery pack. Lower power will make the thermal design easier, which could also lead to a lighter unit (weight being one of the more prominent complaints.)
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.