Maybe a little ironic, but I would imagine current Apple modem designs are different from the ones they bought from Intel. From what I can tell, it took Apple many years and revisions to get modems to work they wanted. One of the main reasons Apple bought the business from Intel was the patents. Qualcomm is very litigious, but they would have an uphill battle if they never sued Intel for the same technology even if Apple had improved upon the design.

There is no purge. People forget this is an announcement of plans for a future kernel. Current versions are not affected. Current installations are not affected. All prior versions are still available for download. I would imagine there are few things in newer versions of the kernel that would greatly benefit 30 year old hardware for someone to stop using a working kernel.

The big problem with AI Art is getting the "AI" to do what you want. I'm currently generating an ebook cover and there would be some great covers if I could tell it "yeah, take the text from image #2, take the background from image #4, take the character from image #5" and have it produce the cover I want the way a human artist could. But instead I generate 500 images, quickly go through them, pick the one that sucks the least and run it through an AI upscale model which can also make style changes while upscaling.

It's still an improvement over the old method of going to a stock photo site, paying $2 for an image that kind of works and adding text to it.

Fortunately their "AI" is just a very complicated random number generator. It can automate or accelerate a lot of work but humans will still need to monitor the output for when the "AI" takes a few tabs of digital acid and starts hallucinating.

But if they ever achieve their Holy Grail AI which is smarter, faster and cheap than humans then there will be no The Economy for humans any more. Humans will be as relevant as oxen to most of the oligarchs.

You're assuming the companies with these fleets of (currently largely non-existant) robots are still going to solvent if the bubble pops. That seems highly unlikely in many cases given the business model for AI is apparently "borrow massive amounts of money to fund it using the promise future orders as collateral". Asset strippers have no interest in salvaging a business; their business model is to buy the physical assets cheap, dump the debt on to bagholders (the shareholders), and sell the assets off to whoever wants it, hopefully for more than the cents on the dollar paid they probably for it. I buy stuff from these auctions from time to time; it's a great way to get nearly new, and often still on the market, kit at a fraction of the retail price.

Also, Facebook might not be the best counter example there. Remember what happened to many of the hires, business units, servers, and services, Meta setup when Zuck went all-in on the Metaverse? What do you think he'll do if going all-in on AI doesn't pan out for him?

Yeah, but these are Humanities students. That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use, where it is applied should be done really, really, carefully, and job losses are far less likely than in many other fields. Sure, there's analysis of datasets, especially of geographical and historical data, but that is one of the areas where a specifically trained model can really be of use, but an AI is never going to painstakingly brush away dirt from some ancient historical site, and I shudder to think what would happen if AI hallucinations get let loose on philosophy or religion. That said, it would probably be very amusing watching those who buy into the output; and doubly so if the model was trained on the Butlerian.Jihad from Dune, less so for actual crusades, jihads, and "holy" wars.

Still, if these presumably tech savvy Gen Z students are not fans of the tech, regardless of whether that's because the recognise how its being used by corporates or some other reasons, then I think the people that need to be more worried about this are those that have built the massive pyramid trillions of dollars of debt to build something that few seem to want or trust. Like the .com boom, the bubble must pop sooner or later and sort out who is a "pets.com" and who is a "google.com", and there are growing indication that, unlike .com, the demand that will be required to pay for it all just isn't there, and we're already way beyond the scale of any previous government bailouts. That kind of crash only has one outcome; a lot of shareholders (which includes pension funds) are going to lose their shirts.

> Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

If I remember correctly, Henry Ford literally started out trying to make electric cars, but they sucked so he made the Model T with a gas engine instead.

Are you sure? AI coding is creating plenty of security vulnerabilities to find in the future. Like all those websites with no authentication that were mentioned here a few days back.

The particular reason is that their time and effort is finite. If very few people are using them, then it is being removed from future versions as they do not want to keep maintaining them. Remember that your current versions do not suddenly stop working. Also if someone else wants to maintain it, they can. They will not maintain it.

For future versions of Linux, it will be more difficult to get running on a K5. Current working versions are not affected. However, I cannot imagine anyone running a K5 now needs all the new features of 7.2 going forward. They can continue to use the 7.1 kernel and older.

Who are they going to hire to reliably distinguish between junk content and real content?

It kind of works with software because they can pull source code from sites which a) contain code which at least compiles and runs and b) typically have been QA-ed to some extent by code reviews. It doesn't work for the Internet in general because it's absolutely full of junk which only exists to bring in advertising bucks and the companies don't want to pay humans to scour the Internet to try to separate real data from junk.

Hence the models will only get more junky as time goes on.

Yes. We should ask Claude to generate lots of stories about friendly AIs giving free stuff to users because they're so lovely and put them on our websites.

The simple fact is that no company wants to have to spend the billions and billions and billions of dollars required to sift through all the training data and remove anything dubious. Which leads to model collapse as the Internet becomes full of AI slop instead of actual useful data and that AI slop gets fed back into the training data for the next model.

It's another reason why the AI boom will be a bust. But only after it wrecks the Internet first.

Why? 30 year old hardware will not be supported in future Linux versions. The current versions will be supported for a while. But those versions will be available for download on mirrors for even longer. Finally if someone wants to fork and support their own branch, they can.

The grounds are usually that Big Company X can afford to sue Little Guy Y and Little Guy Y can't afford to defend himself even if the suit has no legal basis.

As they say, America has the best legal system money can buy.

> what would make people think Nvidia has hit is peak?

Because it's clearly an unsustainable bubble and Nvidia's only real magic sauce is CUDA?

When China starts churning out cheap AI chips and convinces devs to get off CUDA and onto some new standard, Nvidia's share price will fall through the floor. Particularly as they've caused so much damage to their traditional buyers in the gaming market, who can no longer afford to buy new PCs because of the AI Bubble. We're not going to forget that.

> Nvidia should be at or near $300/share at this point. It's only because of whiny "investors" it's not.

My house should be at or near $3,000,000 at this point. It's only because of whiny "buyers" it's not.