Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Macroeconomics 101 (Score 1) 69

The massive amount of capital put into AI is not going to yield results.

To clarify my own statement. I mean not going to yield results proportional to the amount put into them. You can double the investment and not get double the return. I think this is reflected in the wacky P/E ratios we see in the market for AI related stocks.

Comment Re:Macroeconomics 101 (Score 1) 69

The massive amount of capital put into AI is not going to yield results. There will be mostly losers and only a few winners. This is assuming AI sticks around and is the paradigm shift that many people believe it will be.

If it's entirely fake, just a bunch of nonsense that people wasted money on, then it will pop quickly. But if it's somewhat real, like the dot-com boom. We'll see society transformed, and a lot of failed businesses, some of them very stupid, scattered along the information superhighway.

If this is a bubble like the housing bubble. Well, remember that even though a lot of people were underwater on their mortgage. Those homes never went to zero. It was worth something to someone, but there were a lot of people who lost everything in the exchange. And a handful of people who profited a great deal.

So expect that GDP will go up, even when the AI bubble pops. And that the middle class retirement accounts are going to be absorbing most of the hit. Because someone else, probably someone very rich, is going to still come out ahead. They almost always do.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 50

For some things you don't even need ChatGPT. If you're having the flu, it would be really nice if you just call the doctor to get the prescription instead of having to pay a visit where the doctors says "Yeah here is the prescription, bye and come back if it doesn't get better". Sometimes you really don't need a long diagnosis.

What meds for the flu?

I mean, there is Tamiflu (sp?)...but that's really only effective if you catch it at the beginning.....but the best diagnosis is generally, treat the symptoms, plenty of fluids, rest and let it run its course...

Flu is viral....so NO ANTI-BIOTICS....no matter how much the patient bitches and asks for them....

Comment Matter of national security (Score 1) 245

Our nation is at risk during a prolong conflict or embargo as long as we remain dependent on foreign oil. Reducing the amount we use is the most obvious path out, this allows our own reserves to stretch much further.

But MAGA is not ran by smart people. Evil people sure, but not ever evil villain is an evil genius, some are just thugs.

Comment Wrong? (Score 1) 80

No, it is "end to end" encryption exactly as they claimed - one of those ends is their datacenter where the data is processed.

As per the description from the linked blog:

"End-to-end encryption", or E2EE, is a method of securing data that ensures only the sender and their chosen recipient are able to view it.

The "chosen recipient" is Kohler's datacenter, so it's behaving exactly as claimed. The application functions by processing the data on their servers, which is also why a monthly fee is charged to provide the service.

You could theoretically avoid this by transmitting the data directly between the camera and your device, and doing the processing on your device, although that might not be practical

There are many much worse examples where data is routed through hosted servers unnecessarily, typically as a kludge to get around NAT restrictions.

Comment Re:The old auto makers are fucked. (Score 1) 245

In the USA car companies are bribing politicians to keep fuel economy standards low because they do not want to spend money on R&D. Meanwhile the Chinese car makers are designing dark factories that crank out electric cars that are better and less expensive than anything made in the USA. Ten years from now there are going to be Chinese factories in the USA cranking out amazing cars. And it is going to be a bloodbath for the companies that want to keep living in the past.

Those cheap Chinese EVs aren't going to do a damned bit of good for the at least 1/3+ of US citizens that have no way to charge at home.

Unless you live on one of the extremes coasts, there just is not sufficient public charging infrastructure......hence, there's not likely to be much more EV demand in the US than there is now for the most part.

People largely don't want them....the ones that do, have them already.

Sure, low cost will win a lot of people over, BUT that hits a brick wall when you can't charge the damned things at home and they don't fit within your lifestyle .....

Comment Finally (Score 1) 103

Expect a leveling off of consumer hardware, both in terms of RAM capacity but also in processing performance.
Browser developers are going to have to accept that a tabs can't be allowed to eat 1 GB+ each, and start optimizing software instead of expecting users to throw more hardware at it.

Sadly, I know that browsers are just going to go into some kind of Cloud AI navel gaze and it may be years before they get back to making useful software.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Consider a spherical bear, in simple harmonic motion..." -- Professor in the UCB physics department

Working...