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Comment Re:So now ... (Score 1) 5

Were you able to before? Obviously, "like everyone else" you'll be keeping it encrypted at rest with keys that are kept in an HSM. For the important "pet feeding habit data" you will have made an exception and actually bought your own HSMs, kept in your multiple highly geographically separated underground bunkers with limited on site compute and simply feed limited summary results back to the cloud. For less important "nuclear weapons test results" data you find some compromise where you can track which and for the "current location of warheads data" you might just decide that you take the risk because, you're just going to have to accept the risk of that data leaking anyway for other reasons, and cost of processing is a priority. That's why right data classification and appropriate handling is important.

Every computer you use you trust Intel, Infineon, Samsung and tens or hundreds of others manufacturers not to embed hostile radio devices or software on chips that phone home. That includes some companies that actually have added weird management systems against their users wishes. Apple (IIRC) have pubilcly had the situation where they threw away a bunch of mother boards that arrived for their cloud. I'm sure all of the others have too. What don't they spot?

Adding one more cloud provider doesn't really make things much worse that it was to begin with.

Comment Much as I enjoy mocking Russia... (Score 4, Insightful) 25

This sort of thing just happens sometimes.

But I will be curious to see how this plays out, given the Russians have already gone back and forth regarding whether they're going to stick with the ISS to the end of its operational life. They might decide the decision's been made for them.

Comment Only 8 years and 12%? (Score 1) 53

Logically only 60 or so years remain before AI can take over 100% of jobs. Assuming that we're all replaceable cogs where every job and every worker are equivalent.
The other factor, a constant rate of growth in AI's capabilities, is probably less of a hand-wave than you might think because we're going to be constrained on the sizes of the models, computational power of the servers, and of course electricity to run it all. We'll probably see a very brief exponential growth of AI then a slow as physical constraints kick in, we're already see exponential money burned on the problem with a likely linear pay off. Jensen's "The more you buy, the more you save." will probably work out as "The more you buy, your more you spent." for most AI bets.

Comment Re: Linux as a kernel, yeah, it's everywhere. (Score 1) 67

/bin/bash is still installed, so people's typical shell scripts like command-line installers and whatnot still work.
I think the default being zsh is that it's less buggy and has some nice interface features.
The real question we should ask is not why Apple includes zsh by default, but why Ubuntu makes you install it before you can use it.

Comment Re:What's old is new again (Score 4, Informative) 33

Here's where the summary goes wrong:

Artificial intelligence is one type of technology that has begun to provide some of these necessary breakthroughs.

Artificial Intelligence is in fact many kinds of technologies. People conflate LLMs with the whole thing because its the first kind of AI that an average person with no technical knowledge could use after a fashion.

But nobody is going to design a new rocket engine in ChatGPT. They're going to use some other kind of AI that work on problems on processes that the average person can't even conceive of -- like design optimization where there are potentially hundreds of parameters to tweak. Some of the underlying technology may have similarities -- like "neural nets" , which are just collections of mathematical matrices that encoded likelihoods underneath, not realistic models of biological neural systems. It shouldn't be surprising that a collection of matrices containing parameters describing weighted relations between features should have a wide variety of applications. That's just math; it's just sexier to call it "AI".

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