That's a feature, not a bug. They want to end general-purpose home computing and rent computer time to us instead (if our social credit score is high enough)

Starting to think I should buy another DGX Spark while they're still cheaper than a new car.

If you talk to people who know what they're talking about, it turns out the cost is very similar. As for light delay, it's a few milliseconds; if users can connect directly to the satellites it may be faster than communicating with a data centre on the other side of the US.

The cost ends up being similar assuming mass production of satellites and realistic future launch costs, and you can "just do it" rather than have to waste years fighting through bureaucracy to build them on Earth.

Just as regulation pushed chip manufacturing out of the US, it's now pushing "AI" data centres out. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, but it's clearly a thing.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

> Like whom?

Uh, smart people? I know a lot of them and we tend not to hang out with midwits.

We knew it was stolen by noon the next day, simply by looking at the stats and alleged voting patterns. It was impossible to legitimately get the results they claimed.

> Sure would help their case if there actually was any evidence.

Like I said...

It's basically the IQ bell-curve meme again. The retards and the smart people can see it was obviously stolen. The midwits continue to shriek "CITATION NEEDED!" because they're not capable of looking at the evidence themselves and have no common sense.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

You can replace your entire BMW seat if you like with seats from another vendor. Put in a racing seat, or even install a seat you designed yourself.

This probably was not the brilliant analogy you thought it was going to be. :p

Exactly. Building GPUs is difficult. Building AI chips is much simpler without having to deal with all the graphics parts.

It's "Learn to prmpt" these days, dude.

Note that they've split this into about a dozen different settings which all have to be turned off. So that's a dozen things I have to change on four or five different PCs to disable this new "feature" which I'm sure wasn't added to steal my data, honest guv.

If one person in twelve hates these cameras, he won't be convicted. That's the whole point of jury trials. If everyone loves the cameras he will be.

Using em-dashes is perfectly good and common English usage in writing. AI is using them properly, though using them more than a human normally would.

I haven't tried asking one to not use them lately but when I tried a few months ago it went quite insane and started doing all kinds of weird stuff.

The bigger issue is that the big models like Claude are becoming less and less capable of writing fiction because they're being trained to produce boring business stuff and that eliminates the ability to make up stories or write in a literary style. I'm told they're also being loaded up with more and more layers of "safety" which refuse to write in existing styles or even to edit work that might be copyrighted, even if the user is the one who originally wrote it.

Meanwhile I'm sure companies like Amazon must have their own internal AIs in development so they can just look at the kind of books people read and automatically generate a book tailored to the things they like.

Yes. I can no longer use em-dashes in stories I write or idiots will shriek "IT'S AI!" I never really did the "not X but Y" thing, but the rule of three is an ancient writing rule because three is about the most things an average human can keep in their mind at one time.

It's all 'tarded.

That's simply not true. AI is allowing some writers I know to become far more productive, in one case going from one book every few years to one book every month or so.

And it's not just AI slop, they're interesting stories where they've taken the James Patterson/late Clive Cussler approach of writing the story outline and having the writing assistant fill in the words. The only difference is their writing assistant is a computer, not a human.