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Comment Re:Grain of Xalt (Score 1) 45

It might not be a sustainable economic model once engineering employment returns to normal there. They may be tuning the bots to fit the current car model, but changing models later may result in problems similar to Tesla's, when they no longer have low-wage engineers to de-glitch them again. Time will tell...

Comment AI smells like a bubble, quacks like (Score 2) 63

...bubble, and waddles like a bubble.

All this equipment and power hogging just cannot be sustainable. While enough people like using AI, they'd probably cut down on usage if they had to pay the actual costs, which are currently subsidized by investors and big co's trying to gain market share. If given away for free or nearly free, people waste. Thus, current AI consumption stats are misleading.

Comment Grain of Xalt (Score 1) 45

It's hard to know if China's factory bots are practical, CEO's tell Xi what Xi wants to hear because if the bot plans later fail, the CEO won't be alone in fails and not look as bad.

Musk tried using lots of bots to make Teslas, but found they were not flexible enough, and required too much tech staff babysitting that was better spent solving car problems. Xi might not care because the recent high unemployment of Chinese engineers means bot repair is a make-work program for them. The crazy things dictators can do.

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