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At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.
At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.
I'm not particularly alarmed. I figure that most movies will be generated by small studios and indies using AI in the coming years. The big studios spending hundreds of $millions per movie will fall to the wayside. There will be an explosion of creativity as costs go down and the price of failure is reduced.
Bold proclamation, but 25 years ago, Sony publicly predicted on their press tour that CGI would replace actors...it never did. Will AI be integrated into entertainment?...absolutely....will anyone want to see that slop?...I doubt it. Sony was proud of Final Fantasy Spirits Within and back in 2000, I thought it looked really rad...now it looks like a PS4 game. But even in 2000, I knew it wouldn't replace the real thing. I honestly didn't like it very much. It was tolerable, but not an upgrade to live action, even in 2000, when we weren't spoiled by good CGI.
I think CGI is a better indicator of the future of AI. Sure, Star Wars prequels and Sin City, tried to make everything green screen...and it sucked. Audiences didn't like them. The only box office draw was due to them being popular existing properties, so yeah, Star Wars fans lined up...same with Frank Miller fans. However, we got bored of it. Few bothered again.
No one wants to pay top dollar for CGI and the same applies for AI slop. Someone will make a movie in AI...it will suck...people will stop...AI footage will get mixed in with CGI and live action, but the future of movies will have VFX look just like today, only better, and maybe cheaper, but the most talented CGI artists can't replicate the look/feel of a set with practical effects. It's doubtful AI will do so much better to put everyone out of business.
25 years ago, everyone said what you said about CGI...that it would replace sets and drastically cut costs...everything will be filmed in front of a green screen. Today, we see that that's not true. It augments old-fashioned filmmaking...never replaced it...and looking at today's LLMs and how they've progressed, I see no indication they can replace anyone...augment? absolutely...replace?...well...if ChatGPT can actually replace your job, you weren't very useful. I use Claude daily...it can't write Java with correct syntax reliably...and that's easy!!!!...neither can ChatGPT or CoPilot. It shows little progress from generation to generation...seriously, it has no idea where to put commas or semi-colons. That's a MUCH MUCH MUCH easier problem to solve than created a fucking movie!!!
Maybe but the corporate greed machine is never satisfied. After the first few shipments, they may cry foul.
Nah dude, difference country.
I'm no lawyer but this sounds suspiciously like an export tax. I think Nvidia now has a solid case that A) it's illegal (only congress can tax stuff, right?) and that B) a ban is unwarranted because of the attempted illegal export tax.
Kinda seems like the grifter just shot himself in the foot again.
It's not the Taiwanese that are crying censorship, it's the Chinese. The KMT are just wannabe CCP members who are just as truthful as the real CCP. Actual Taiwanese people don't want something that China controls.
Depends on what the person was doing at the time. If the person who didn't pull the trigger was holding up a liquor store and the police shot the wrong person, there's at least arguably mens rea, which is how we get things like the felony murder rule.
Not quite- that's how you get the proximate cause felony murder rule, of which only a couple of jurisdictions in the US, and none outside of the US in the Western world recognize due to its obvious injustice.
No, it's how you get mens rea for the felony murder rule. You didn't carry the gun with the intent to kill, only to intimidate, but you still had a guilty mind, and if you then used the gun to kill someone in the heat of the moment, there's your mens rea.
And remember that actual cause does not mean literally pulling the trigger. At least in the U.S., the courts apply a "but for" test. If the event would not have happened without the previous event, then the previous event is considered the actual, not proximate cause. The police would not have shot the other person but for the perpetrator pointing a gun at someone (and possibly shooting at the police).
IMO, that's not meaningfully different than involuntary manslaughter convictions for allowing unsafe working conditions at a construction site or leaving your loaded gun out where a child can take it, both of which have happened.
Using the numbers above, if Meta had the same pre-tax profit of $60B now but was using the 3 year depreciation schedule they used in 2020 vs the current 5.5 year, then instead of depreciation being $13B it'd be $23.8B, meanding they'd lose nearly almost $11B in recorded profits, just from a calculation. So in essence this boosts their stock price by making them look more profitable than they are.
True, but only momentarily. At the end of the first depreciation cycle, assuming purchasing of hardware is not accelerating, you're depreciating 5x as much hardware over 5x the time, and your momentary bubble in the stock price is gone.
And even if hardware purchasing is growing right now, eventually, that will flatten out, and the above will be true.
The only real question should be whether the depreciation rate is reasonable. If you're still getting substantial use out of the hardware after five years, then depreciating it over 3 years is questionable.
Also, the more slowly you depreciate it, the less you save on taxes each year. Faster depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go down and you will lose the benefit of that depreciation. Slower depreciation is beneficial if you think the tax rate will go up and you will benefit more from depreciating it later. So this may also mean that these companies are expecting corporate income taxes to go up. Make of that what you will.
ACK, and I was also probably wrong about the location. I had just had my first look at a tiny map and I didn't realize how much farther north the tsunami zone was. Only about a three-meter tsunami, which is quite small compared to March 11th.
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