I don't work for T-Mobile but I do work in the Core Network design team of another mobile carrier in another country. Amongst those applications were undoubtedly a bunch of systems that are literally the mobile network itself, Virtual Network Functions (VNF) - things like HSS, MME, PGW etc. You can't just pick those up and flick them somewhere else on a whim. With the complexity of a modern mobile network 4 years would be on the short side for a program of work to move them. Especially since the move would realistically mean a shift to containerised versions instead of virtualised, which are an order of magnitude more complex to deploy.

Source: our company is in the throes of replacing large chunks of the core network with containerised functions (on RedHat OpenShift, which is the big telco vendors standard platform these days), currently in year three and have only completed HSS, with IMS ready to go live soon, OCS in the early stages, PCRF, messaging and the entire EPC yet to kick off in 2027-2028.

I thought the whole point was that it was so smart it wouldn't matter which way I held it. Why, a goldfish could design a new car with magical AI!

The toilet seat is still freezing in the morning even after Uranus has been...

If we're in the fun hype phase now, I shudder to think...

Anyway... here's Wonderwall!

LLMs hallucinate 100% of the time. More often than not the hallucination is in the shape of the correct answer. Sometimes it isn't. But you can't stop LLMs from hallucinating ... because everything is a hallucination.

All you can do is keep trying to find more edge cases and writing rules against them.

Which is basically computer programming again but with 1000x the resource cost and none of the determinism.

We could do that *now* if we wanted to. But it costs money. Costs reduce profits. And you don't get to be Jeff Bezos by doing anything that reduces your profits.

Surely the "correct" icon for midnight sun regions should show both. I mean, the moon *does* come up during the day, even in temperate regions. Sometimes it even crosses the sun and we get a cool eclipse.

Who's "we", sucka?

Looks like I gave up and went 100% Linux on my new gaming PC 6 months too soon. Is it too late to come back?

100%. But that wouldn't stop me from going to the Disputes Tribunal to demand they refund my money as well. :-)

This still goes back to the likes of Altman etc. who are driving the bullshit hype. The things you noted above as AI success used to just be called Machine Learning and there was no real dispute (even from "AI" haters) that they were useful tools. But they were specialised tools - just like almost every other successful tool.

The LLM pushers want you to believe that their product (it's real AI!) will solve every problem, and it's just one more GPU generation away from Commander Data or R2-D2.

But there's one thing that LLMs are really good at - passing the Turing test. Train them to always tell you your idea is the bestest idea ever in the history of ideas, you original genius, and it's inevitable that CEOs insulated from the real work will fall for the hype.

Well there's some psychopathic phrasing right there...

So what's your plan for getting the next generation of true experts?

"By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be."

Oh Elon, don't fret. There's plenty of hate left over.