Which is generally OK, as long as you use enough masking tape.

Obviously they are breeding Wooley Mammoths and Wooly Mice so they can see if the Wooley Mammoths are afraid of the Wooley Mice. [They are MythBusters fans]

Add to that the recent roadmaps from NVDA on next, next, and next generation chips - capabilities and power requirements - and they may have a better idea of what they intend to buy in future expansions.

If the chips do more compute, with lower power and cooling requirements, then the power and cooling needs overall lessen. Ditch a couple of datacenter contracts that will no longer be needed in the future.

Unless he protests for Palestinians. Then he'll get deported to Sagittarius.

I *wish* I was using that new fangled perforated tape. I'm still using sounds recorded on a cassette tape.

I can't speak for others, but when I moderate I do NOT set myself up to be the arbiter of truth. I moderate down when someone is trying to derail the conversation (and that is RARE). I mod up when anything helps fuel the current discussion (whether or NOT I agree with it, or even think that it is accurate), is genuinely informative, or makes a good point.

That is all. Carry on.

I'm a principal SW developer, making pretty good money. Counting my all-in cost as twice my salary, a SW development agent would cost about 1/3rd of that. Assuming you need someone like me to get the most out of it, you'd be increasing my cost by 33%. To be a slam dunk value for the company, OpenAI would have to prove - pretty conclusively - that they'd be increasing my productivity by 50% to make it worth the investment. 33% would only be break even. Less than that and you're losing money over all.

That seems like a tough sell to me. Make me more productive? Probably. 50% more? That's a steep hill to climb.

Both may be correct. If the chickens on your friends farm felt safe everywhere, then maybe they lay eggs anywhere. On another farm maybe the chickens feel safe in the chicken coop, and not as safe outside it. I could see those chickens laying only inside the coop.

Just musing though - IDNRC - I have no evidence one way or the other.

Will we ever get there? I give it a gold-plated Scmaybe.

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying hard enough!"

I'm sure that "governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by AI models, calling this step the "missing link" for them to take full advantage of ... " is all correct.

"Technology" is not the correct next word, however. He wants to take full advantage of something, but technology is not it.

Obviously there is the heat death of the universe. So ... eventually ... the photos will be "deleted" ... "after" (they specifically don't say how long after). So, they aren't lying.

I would assume that this would be entirely expected. We've entered an age in civilization that has, in effect, united the entire planet. Whether through design or accident, ALL species on the planet are now in contact with each other to some extent.

So we're going from a planet with a huge number of geographically separated regions, with no competition between them, to one region, with all species in competition. Hence all the panic and regulations trying to stem the tide of "invasive species".

What should be expected is that survival of the fittest will take place and a lot of "inferior" species will be wiped out as they can't compete successfully on a global basis. A great extinction even caused by removing all the barriers preventing species competing against each other. That will upset a lot of local ecologies in the short run, but eventually it will even out again - life always finds a balance.

Do we need 130 species of sparrow? If they all have to compete with each other, we'll end up with a lot fewer. I'm not sure we should be concerned when that happens. It's even possible there will be no sparrows at all in the end - that some other species will be better at that niche.

Countless species have gone extinct since life began here. With todays connected world (for better or worse) we should expect a lot more.

Thanks for the info! I'd looked at them a couple of times in passing, but the functionality they provide always seemed not worth what they were asking. Knowing they went to a subscription model? Now I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole.

Thanks again Martin!

I understand the confusion, as both are about equal in their ability to help you reach orbit.