Worth noting that this is one of the worst things for warfighters. In any actually intensive peer to peer conflict (i.e. not uncontested death from above a la GWOT), hardware will have a lot of damage and breakages. That must be repaired ASAP in the field.

This is notably how US won war in the pacific against Japan. "Cruiser got hit by a torpedo under B turret, whole bow blew off" didn't mean a dead cruiser or even a write off. It means cruiser gets emergency repairs right on site, then goes to a nearby port where temporary bow is installed, and then it goes to a shipyard where it gets a new bow welded on. And it's back in action, to see the rest of the war through.

Today they can't even find gets simple spare parts for changing minor things because it's all behind "relevant contractor must travel on site with spare parts to perform repairs".

GWOT and it's model of "completely uncontested in all relevant domains" attitude towards warfighting it generated in US is really biting it in the ass now that PRC is near peer and the likely next source of war.

And soooooo unexpected!

They had a very good reporting engine when OLAP was a new thing back in the early 2000s. A business model licensing software that actually delivered value to their customers. What a concept!

Now they are a Ponzi scheme dressed up as a company. Another indication how far the US has fallen that the SEC tolerates this kind of BS.

So *is* there a super-rare tulip bulb pokemon?

Yep, pretty much. Not all of them but far too many. And some of the malicious ones are exceptionally loud in addition.

For most people, the LLM is "smarter" than they are because their skills regarding understanding and insight are essentially zilch.

I see the victims of bad tech are, again, out in force and insist the bad tech is actually good tech. How pathetic.

Your comment does not make sense, hence I interpreted it as insult and gave right back. A prototype that has been running 5 years without major problems is a successfully proven prototype but in no way "proven technology". That requires a bit more.

It is to the advantage of AI porn sites to edge but not allow release for the user, for continued engagement and more marketing opportunity.

Nobody thinks that would be the argument, surely you're at least that smart.

Well, I am still on fvwm and I have been for the last 30 years. I see not need to go to any other desktop as it works perfectly well and is customized to exactly hat I want. There are tons of other good and sane window-managers out there.

KDE? Gnome? I could not care less. This is not Windows, where you can be forced to use a specific broken desktop.

That thing is a partially built wreck that cannot compete with X11 on possibilities.

It is called "sane and solid engineering" and "not falling for any mindless hype". I guess you lack experience with both of these.

There are a number of problems with LLM-type AI being rushed in this fast. It can take jobs where the occasional massive screw-up does not matter much. Callcenters are probably one of those. The second one is that there are still not enough real applications that would generate profit and the number of failures is rising, while the number of successes is not. Hence this thing has gotten way too large and basically must collapse and the only question is when. Also, many are in denial and think they have a success, when really, they have a failure.

This could, for example, lead to a scenario where a lot of the workforce gets replaced (10% would be a lot) and then LLMs go away or become massively more expensive because the flood of investor money has run dry. Another one is LLMs finally find enough useful use-cases to justify the expenses of running and maintaining them, but the mistakes they make eliminate all profits by expensive lawsuits being won. And some more like that.

Yep, that is part of the money-laundering. The only reason ransomware payments went up dramatically is that with crapto you could finally launder large amounts of money. Before they were laughably low, like the $200 demand a person I know got. On that you cannot grow a larger criminal enterprise.