It's not about scale. Fiber is inexpensive to make. But it's just more temperamental than copper. You need to keep the ports completely dust free. It's not ideal for a normal home and doesn't carry electricity so you can't power a device at the other end of the plug with POE.
There are $700 gaming monitors with those specs already. There will probably be $300 gaming monitors with those specs in a year or two.
All good in theory, except that you likely need something like a 200" TV so actually tell the difference between 8k and 16k.
Like I said, I figured 8k would be enough resolution for soccer. As for 16k, I imagine that something with bandwidth for 16k would translate that bandwidth into twice the frequency for 8k, which would be ideal for soccer.
[Lawrence of Arabia] Let me guess, you are watching these classics at 1080p, or at best 4k.
I watched Lawrence of Arabia on a Cinerama screen. It was breathtaking. I expect that the higher resolutions described here will help more places (like movie theaters) display higher quality prints. I suspect they'll open up new avenues like fake windows or full-wall screens in residences.
Like a bike messenger? Why does a delivery rider need home internet?!
Do you watch soccer? 4k resolution means a player's head is about 14 pixels high, not enough to make out much beyond a blob of color; their jersey is 60 pixels high, enough to make out the number but not much more. Doubling the vertical resolution (i.e. going to 8k) would likely be enough to let you make out similar detail to what you'd see in real life. (Frame rate is another issue: HDMI 2.0 allows 4k at 60hz which is too slow when panning in a soccer game; HDMI 2.1 allows 4k at 120hz which is probably enough). I think that 16k is probably the right bandwidth to get soccer looking good.
Do you do VR? 4k per eye isn't good enough for VR yet. It's possible that 16k will be, but we might still need more.
Do you watch the gorgeous film classics like Lawrence of Arabia? One of the (many) things that make it look great is that it was shot on 65mm, equivalent to about 12k resolution.
The world is full of troubleshooting trees. Even going to the doctor is often a memorized branching diagnostic steps.
LLMs are excellent at that. I've often wished I could just get the tech support app that the tech support call center people use to fix my problems. Like, why do I need to call and wait half an hour for someone to read a script?
Instant support, even if it's just following the tech support tree would be a lot of help I think and resolve a lot of stupid problems. "have you turned it off and on again?"
This is the problem a lot of people apply to every piece of technology that comes along.
"It can't safely fly a plane full of 300 people! It's useless!"
Ok, yeah, sure... I guess. But most things in the world don't have that degree of confidence needed. I used an LLM this morning to remind me of a plot thread in a TV show I haven't watched in 15 years. It got it right, as I remember it as well and it's infinitely easier than scrolling through 300-episode summaries.
That's a nice arrangement that OpenAI wants. "Invest in us when we're small and fund our development... and then keep all the money once we hit it big." You mean to tell me that Microsoft wants a return on their very large and very high risk investment?!
The military team scrub *alerts about objects *.
Three days later, the full unscrubbed image is shared with astronomers.
I guess they don't and can't care about stable orbits, but they want to retain surprise for dynamic situations.
Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?
It's easy to regulate AI art the state level.
"Any job offer for a job based in California must adhere to the following AI disclosure".
"Any mortgage offered in a Californian property must satisfy the following AI disclosure"
etc.
AI regulation need not be about regulating AI innovation; it's enough merely to make sure it's applied fairly. And almost all real-world applications are indeed local.
I mean, you could very inexpensively integrate a GPS chip on there. You could put it into the firmware that the signal has a private key that encrypts said signal. It would likely get hacked eventually but by then probably not be export limited. So from a hardware perspective this isn't impossible.
So it's not impossible. But it wouldn't work because a Server GPU, inside of a rack at the bottom wouldn't get signal. You could maybe... maybe... build a big enough antenna into every GPU that it would at least pickup what continent it's on within a margin of error. So mayyyyybeeee it's possible it would still work. But probably not.
Does MS not have such agreements in place?
I used to work at Microsoft. My employment contract specifically called out a load of personal pre-existing projects, plus ongoing and future ones, and stipulated that MS would have no ownership nor claim. I did ask for these callouts, but they were happy to go along.
"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
