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Comment Re: Begun, the AI price wars have... (Score 1) 38

As a local AI enthusiast I can tell you that it's not practical even with a large budget. For one thing the hardware is obsolete as soon as you buy it. In a few years that $30k compute card is worth $300.

This would be an awesome problem to have. My local AI enthusiast hardware is three years old and currently worth 4x what I paid for it at the time. At least when shit becomes worthless you can afford to buy better shit and get more value out of it.

With that said, even "old" AI is useful for some tasks but probably not what you'll want to use it for. The field is moving so insanely fast that newer models vastly surpass previous models and you want to be top top of that because the improvements are huge.

Personally don't see hardware requirements moving all that much. Much of it as I predicted three years ago is in large sparse models with limited numbers of active parameters. I can run everything I would want to run except K3 with good enough performance for my purposes. It is the sheer volume of RAM rather than compute or even memory bandwidth that seems to be the ascending limiting factor.

Comment Re: Idiots, all of them (Score 2) 81

Lolol of course they can. The data doesn't actually belong to the intermediary and it certainly doesn't belong to iron mountain. It's good that they required a court order, because the party requesting the data is not the party that provided it, but it's still the PBS station's data and they still have a right to it.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 1) 92

Who died? Spanish citizens? Sources, please.
I'm not saying it isn't tragic that so many of the people suckered into this operation drowned

Who died? How can you not know? Have you done any research at all before forming an opinion of what did or did not happen?

The source is the mouth of the Mayor President of Ceuta during his address to the EU parliament on Aug 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or if you prefer second hand press sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...
https://www.dw.com/en/ceuta-le...

but that was not the point of contention. Read the thread again, carefully.

I'm sorry I have no clue what you are trying to say. What was the point of the statement "In no time, pretty much all those who had crossed were back in Morocco and everything was back to normal." ? What did you intend to convey by this that is actually consistent with the facts of what took place?

Comment Re: The Satanic Verses (Score 1) 53

Microsoft's roots run deep, and into the hearts of corporations and governments. Linking the hot thing of the moment into that plant, however badly, is what separated Microsoft from IBM. Big Blue's massive and iconic familiarity was the result of a happy accident they did their level best not to repeat, while Microsoft was always and remains happy to play to the demands of the moment to the detriment of security and reliability. Nothing has ever really changed with Microsoft regardless of CEO except that they've become more willing to throw things away and start again — but of course they still make the transitions from one thing to the next in the same way in which they do every thing: with hands of ham.

Good thing for them lock-in works!

Comment Re:Groundhog day... (Score 4, Insightful) 56

Microsoft would simultaneously have you believe that their products are so good people can't help but want to use them, and that China is a hard place to sell a product in successfully so of course it only makes sense for them to withdraw.

Fact is, all of Microsoft's products are outshone by someone else's now, and many of them are free, and most of them are even Free!

Microsoft has already been transitioning towards being a service company more than a product company with Azure and 365. They are an IBM or Oracle now. Nobody wants most of their products, but they have legacy products that it makes sense to put them next to. If you were starting from scratch today, you'd start with something else.

Comment Re:Heavy Lifting (Score 1) 64

Sounds like they're going for the Amazon model â" sell at a loss for years until the competition withers, then stop selling at a loss.

Yes, I agree, but it's insensible. The competition isn't going to wither because they have to compete with everyone, since it's an internet-delivered service. Plus, the industry is ripe for new developments from previously unknown players. Transformers made LLMs viable. What's the next development on that scale? It is of course unguessable, but if it doesn't come from Anthropic, they're not special.

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