A minor addition?

I know companies that flat out block access to all models outright on all corporate assets. Why? Contractual security requirements. Adding a model, even a theoretically local model, is something that would cause serious heartburn for compliance.

When you make big changes, you don't hide it in the release notes you make an announcement. Don't believe me? You'd better see what happens when Microsoft pulled that crap in the past. They were absolutely roasted.

Let's be brutally honest and say Google is the first, and they expect defense from people like yourself. You make it easier to offer a half-hearted apology.

The simple fact is it appears to be (mostly) bluster and hype. Don't forget that Dario said Claude would be programming EVERYTHING.

AI is quickly becoming the Full Self Driving (NEXT YEAR!) of the computer world, only with an even higher cash burn rate. They (Sam, Dario, et al.) learned well from Elon.

There's a slight difference for farms you might want to consider before climbing on that horse: FOOD FEEDS PEOPLE. Now I'm not one to say flood farming, particularly for almonds, is a great idea. That being said part of the reason farms in California (or even Arizona) use all that water is because of the idiotic way we handle water rights in the US. They stop using that much water... they don't get as much a year later when they might need more water to maintain the crops due to altered weather.

Golf courses aren't my thing, but again, grass a growing thing that humans interact with directly in the physical world. Personally I can think of better uses for human uses, but even the golf course helps with area cooling because it's a green area not blacktop and concrete. So, again, you're climbing on a high horse that is pretty flipping stupid.

I'm not going to get into the whole "b-b-but datacenters totes don't use water like..." because obviously this data center used a fair amount of water. Personally speaking they should be fined 10 times the illegally taken amount. They also shouldn't get away with, "b-b-but we totes thought we were paying..." because as someone who approved bills to go to my accountant for the facility I ran you flipping well can read or you wouldn't be in charge. Either that or the company is completely incompetent and it sucks to be them, have a nice fine and explain your financial mismanagement to shareholders.

Did they add it without notification? Here's a hint snowflake: adding stuff that is security flagged to software without notification at the Enterprise level is not a good thing. Google, of all companies, should know that AI models are verboten on many systems for contractual reasons.

Saying "you can disable this with flags or GPO" after the fact is unacceptable.

Silently adding an AI model is something that is going to get Chrome ripped out by certain employers.

A lot of companies limit AI model access. That means Google doing this in secret is considered a huge InfoSec red flag. At least one company I know will have Chrome ripped off ALL corporate assets (computers / phones / et al.) by the end of this weekend. They will then ask Google for a version that will NEVER install the AI software without central approval. Google says no? No Chrome on corporate assets.

They have contractual requirements that cannot be avoided.

Just like square this is more AI washed separation. I have yet to see a single AI model that truly saves time. The recent case of Oracle eliminating jobs is related to the fact their Special Purpose Vehicle (to move debt slightly off book) is growing to a dangerous point. Right now they have BILLIONS in debt, that can only be serviced if OpenAI can pay them more than 70 Billion on a regular basis. This is insane.

Who honestly believes these tools are actually valuable. I've seen people using Claude and other models... they're at best copy / paste tools.

The entirety of AI is looking like one of the biggest rug pulls in history, and possibly the largest indictment of late stage capitalism. Elon Musk's "negotiation" (do it or I'll find someone who will do what I want) to get SpaceX added to the index far faster than ever, to get index funds buying shares, should be a SCREAMING warning whistle.

mass media. The problem is the people with wealth captured the media so all debate is effectively canceled. You can only have some of the facts, convenient for a particular point of view, but definitely none of the inconvenient facts for people with wealth, unless it's time for a spectacle. Then it's a rondo, ooh look over there, got the public "got" that one bad actor... who won't really face much except the loss of public face. Well unless they commit the cardinal sin of ripping off the wrong, read: wealthy, people.

As time goes on more and more people are seeing that "AI" is a bad joke hype train. Why? To extract wealth from the public via stock pump and dump and more than a little free "development" money from the government.

I'll believe that the moment the money is in escrow, untouchable by them, unless the service upgrades are canceled before they are started. After all there's a dozen different ways to pass the buck on costs.

I wonder how much free money are they getting from various governments for the projects?

Wealthy people NEVER use their own money. In America it's socialism for the wealthy and rugged individualism for the poor. Wait, why are they pulling that ladder up?

Their in house system is good at solving problems they write! INCONCEIVABLE!

He wasn't really in the "make a threat department" so much as try to negotiate it out, because he wasn't a moron. He wasn't looking to be stupid and cause a backlash because he understood the financial benefits of trade. He also did not want to threaten the purchases made by partners for NATO treaty obligations. He understood how much money the treaties brought into the USA, in terms of investment, which helped keep the US dollar as the reserve currency and other things.

Trump wants to people to offer bribes, declare they see his greatness, and offer him lots of baubles. You don't do what he wants and he'll just create chaos.

Admiral Josh Painter: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." - The Hunt for Red October

I think our, to be polite, mediocre versions of LCARS will be worth something to many people someday. However I do not think it is truly disruptive in the sense of computing or the Internet.

After all, if we can get it to be closer to Star Trek's LCARS, the models will hold the sum of human knowledge in a single accessible system. Hopefully the companies come up with a better interface, but I digress. Should it be the actual sum of human knowledge, in infinitely searchable form, with the user able to adjust the rubber band for search parameters, it could be extremely power tool. They could load data into it and direct it to run a comparative analysis or have students able to access the sum of human history.

Unfortunately, for "AI" companies, the value should crash when the models fail to both be original or wake up. We won't get something like VIKI running the robots at Hyundai factories. Don't get wrong, the Boston Dynamics robots might (probably will) do good things at the factories, but it's not going to do much at first, at least not anytime soon, and I doubt the models will be running them when they are at the factory. So if the robots, cars, and LLM's aren't going to wake up what are they truly worth? When there is no sentience, no original thought, then what is the model worth overall. Not very much at all in comparison.

Of course you don't realize that most airline CEO's would sell their own mother's to get a nearly 2% reduction in fuel costs.

That many CEO's and other business owners see no tangible results or savings with AI...