They have been having decreases in their ability to grow food, so yes they absolutely want Ukraine. You really think people around here know dick.

I have overly expensive cable internet already, I don't need to also pay for CATV.

I got a Google TV because I knew it would have the best app support. Looks like you didn't.

My desktop TV-used-as-Monitor has stupid LG WebOS, but I also don't need a TV-specific app since my desktop is connected to it and I don't connect the TV to the network, only HDMI.

Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright.

Current approaches to AI may need this, but what that says is they are doing it wrong. An "intelligence" is more than a neural network, no matter how big.

A human figures out what do to, an AI fakes it based on ample precedent it has been trained on. The two are not the same.

Correct, and no one should ever forget that.

"Wealth prefers a dystopian hell-whole?"

No, wealth has no preference, it doesn't have agency. The wealthy, however, do prefer exactly that. Everything for them, nothing for you.

"Have our financial masters become stupid in their success? That would be a damning critique of post-modern wealth; say nothing of the institutions that educated them. "

Perhaps you should observe current behavior of the wealthy, it's easier now than ever. And learn something from history.

"1) power usage is more important at this juncture."

Is it? At this "juncture"? If we're talking about AI inferences, how is power usage important at all?

"2) inference is memory bandwidth limited, not compute limited."

So what? How is "gigawatts" useful in that regard?

"A device with 17 bf16 TFLOPS may be able to do inference at precisely the same rate as a device with 4 bf16 TFLOPS."

So what?

"i.e., for very large model inferece- TFLOPS isn't a great measure."

So what? Who's using that? The measure is a gigawatts, the dumbest measure of all.

"I suppose we could transition to aggregate GB/s as our unit of measure."

You are truly a moron. Maybe you could transition to teaspoons of sugar as well.

FLOPs are a better metric than Watts, though. Too bad you're too stupid to understand even that.

"... you want to continue using a meaningless measure..."

What measure do I use? Citations please.

I think everyone realizes it that cares enough to consider it. Most don't bother thinking about it, at least beyond how they can make a buck. You are either a predator or a victim, the only solution is to not allow the game to be played. Sad thing is that most that imagine themselves predators don't realize they are the targets.

There is no post-AI economy, there is only homelessness, poverty and starvation. That's exactly what billionaires intend.

From your first linked article:

"There is no doubt we will see rapid advancements in some of the areas, but for others, like quantization, it is less clear. So while the cost of LLM inference will likely continue to decrease, its rate may slow down."

"Will LLM prices continue to decline at this rate? This is very hard to predict."

But go ahead and an assume massive declines in inferencing costs, we believe you. No doubt Altman and Musk will pass those savings onto the little man.

"or alternatively slows down and drops only two orders of magnitude until 2030"

Wow, so slow!

In your defense, it happened recently. The AI billionaires are too ignorant to realize how stupid this measure is.

World trade was headed to destruction. Now it's just heading there a bit quicker.

Because that will not pacify the poor. Printing money constantly will cause monetary inflation, so only the rich will be able to buy anything of significant value like homes. You'd have to also give away housing. It makes much more sense just to take the money from the rich and give it to the poor, the rich will end up with it again anyway.

It's not wrong to say that America is largely at fault. We got Ukraine to give up nukes in exchange for vague and non-binding promises that we would protect them from Russia. Obviously this is a deal they should not have taken, but it was our sleazy idea.