But what's the end goal of all this? They are spending hundreds of billions to create data centers that do what? run AI chatbots that are little more than cute toys and can't actually be relied upon even to take fast food orders, let alone anything important? When they have these huge data centers sitting idle with 5% utilization what then? And it's not like they could even sell off the assets as the GPU's and RAM are not the kind that average consumers will want

Some patients have gotten along well with external organ transplants - one man lost both arms basically at the shoulders due to an electrical mishap - he got 2 arms transplanted on - he is getting on very well with the arms, using them to brush his teeth, pour drinks, and many other things he couldn't do before.
The issue is rejection for the most part - despite the immunosuppressants he was having marks, blemishes etc growing up his arms where his body was destroying them. He might get 10 years out of them.

Can you imagine being told your face will only last 10 more years and there might not even be any funding to get a new one ????
And honestly these face transplants they end up looking pretty bad. Not like in Face/Off at all. Imagine cutting someones face off then trying to droop it over a mannequin head. It doesn't fit properly, doesn't move properly, one patient said it felt like having a baseball glove as a face.

God forbid if something ever happened to my face, I'd live with the skin grafts - of course you never know what it is like but it seems the benefits just don't outweigh the costs on this one.
Someone here mentioned - why not an artificial face made out of metal or something like you would see in science fiction, I mean it could be better but you really want lips and eyelids etc which you could never get with a metal face.

I dunno $52 billion a year for something that in reality, only acts as a glorified search in an FAQ ? What real world money making applications has this thing done? (Or any of these "AI's" not necessarily Chat-GPT) When used as an agent this thing has basically failed at almost everything - when your product is worse than outsourcing to India that is very impressive to me! See the recent Drive-Thru AI's - these things have no intelligence at all shown by the fact they have no idea 1 man in an SUV probably isn't going to be ordering 10,000 chicken nuggets.

And re Chat-GPT - The vast majority of its users are free users - a lot of them kids using it for schoolwork - they aren't gonna be paying for it when the free tier disappears. Will they pivot to Ad-Sponsored - one in 10 GPT replies is shilling a product?

Watch any social media and people are laughing at it now. E.G. A Fitness Coach channel recently put out a reminder "Remember folks, never to trust AI" after it output an average person will expend 1000 calories during an hour of bike riding.

Even $10B a year would be insane for this novelty IMO. If they could fix the hallucination problem (they can't) - then they could trust it to do real tasks (like really handling orders etc) - then it would be worth the valuation. But they can't !

Yeah in my experience the UK sucks for any big projects. The boobs in charge will find a way to overcomplicate it, slow it down, make it fail, any cost the Government gives for a nuclear plant, you can quadruple it to get the price it will really cost - and double any timescales.

A mixture of incompetence and corruption, just like how we do software - the Govt could hire a team of 5 programmers for 6 months for a project, instead they will bid it out to their friends at a big corporation for 10's of millions and get something that barely works in return.

If I was PM I'd try and stop as many big projects as I could as we just can't do it any more. Stick to solar/wind and invest in battery systems, you could get a lot of batteries for the ££billions they will spend on this - hell even the tens of millions they will spend on "consulting" before they scrap this thing would buy a lot of solar.

The average AI Podcast I stumble across, if you check the comments you might see a few half-senile old people who believe it, most comments will just be saying "AI Voice lol" - people listen to that for a few minutes, realise it's an AI voice with a slideshow of images, and click off. They are usually put together by Russians. With Youtube's race to cut costs I won't be suprised if they announce a crackdown on "No ad revenue for AI voices" before long

If you need something quick locally, you'll just use cashapp surely - why would you wait for a delivery of cash?? Most "entrepeneurs" will take it. Crypto is more for the organised online marketplaces/vendor shops

If they control the DNA they could do a lot of things built in. Built in organic DRM. Need a subtance, say Ketracel White, for your gonads to produce sperm for a short while. Or an upgrade package, your mitochondria work only half as well without it

what, so it should be accepted? It's also common that the new alpha kills the infants of the previous one.
Well I always suspected those that wormed their way to the top behaved little better than animals, this just confirms it! Very glad I have no money wrapped up in all this

175hp / 131KW to maintain 65mph with the trailer seems quite a lot.. how big is this thing?

Also I do agree with you about EV's and I am from a small country - EV zealots say "240 miles should be enough for anybody" but that is not always true.

About the other comments saying "oil subsidies" - even if the Govt removed all Oil subsidies, so that Gas/Diesel suddenly cost 3 times as much - you'd still be better off in that use case, using Diesel over an EV - in my country a fast charger (30 mins) costs 80c per KWH !! A slow charger costs around 30c, that is at 22KW so it would be 10 hours of charging for 2 hours of driving and you aren't even saving any cash.

The other alternative is to have the EV for main use, and rent the truck. But as EV's can cost as much as, or more than a truck, it doesn't really make sense, as then you'd be paying for your EV and renting the truck on top. Unless the EV's running costs are that much lower that you can make up for it. Then you have to deal with these rental places and worry about getting massive fees if it gets scratched...

Of course all of the above doesn't even come into play for the average buyer, they just want a big gas truck and even if EV's cost $15,000 with a 500kwh battery, they still wouldn't feel "cool" driving one, so there will always be a problem with them.

I wonder if they get to see making money as a high score, you "must" be productive at all times even if you have well over enough - people get stuck playing looter games even when they have basically completed it, so much that "end-game content" is a big thing - got to get that latest loot.

So these people never wake up one morning, with the alarm going for a business meeting or whatever, they never sit and think "Wait, I am worth 50 billion dollars, I can just relax and go fishing for the next week, next month learn to paint", whatever. Even if they that for a month or so they'll get bored eventually and go back to chasing that high score.

Unfortunately the high score isn't "Would this be best for society?" - it's "Would this make me money regardless of what it does to society?" If they introduce something that is bad for society it doesn't matter, as long as it makes the extra 20 billion - even if that extra money materially wouldn't make much of a difference to the upper classes lives. I've made this extra money therefor I must be a good person right ? All the anger of the underclass is because they are failures, if only they would have made the business deal that I made, invested that 100G in what I invested in, they'd be winners like me.

Some of the great Sci-Fi involves "what would people do if they had everything" e.g. the Post-Scarcity Culture series. What would bring your life meaning if you had billionaire resources. A question we need to start asking, let alone answering.
And of course you must remember 50% of the human race (probably 90%...) is just not that smart and definitely not capable of introspection. So there's that.

And even when they do start charitable organisations, how often to they even benefit those at the bottom? The homeless people by me all waiting for government funded homing, none get a dime from any charity ? Yes a lot of them do good work e.g. Uncle Bill's foundation releases the Our World in Data series. But then you see them throwing billions around in deals and wonder "does this benefit anyone beyond the odd toilet being built in Uganda?"

IANAE (I am not an economist, obviously!)

There are a lot more religious (Christian) people on here than you think; they try to sound scientific when saying "Superintelligence is impossible" or "It is impossible to replicate a human mind in any machine", sometimes they will use quantum woo, but ultimately their belief is religious - their faith posits a soul exists and so having a human sentience in a machine would disprove their faith, ergo it must be impossible.

The GZDoom team have wanted to implement features and change some other things for years, perhaps decades now, but Graf Zahl being the lead has denied them, on personal whims. For example the default texture filtering in GZDoom is almost uniformly percieved to be ugly and trash, and should not be on by default - but Graf likes it, so it is on by default, period. - meaning the 100's of playthroughs you see on Youtube have this ugly texture smoothing (totally unlike the original game) because most people won't change the defaults.

So this is basically a "last straw" thing, TBH I think the AI thing is more an excuse (with of course some true anti AI zealotry thrown in, you can tell whenever somebody uses the word "slop" they are likely a hysterical zealot - not saying AI is good, far from it, but some people are irrational). One of the first things they have done in this new port is turn off default texture filtering.

This will be a good thing for Doom IMO as it'll allow the team to experiment and do some new things they've wanted to do for a while now.
Also Graf has had strife before, a decade or so ago some maintainers said Graf's code sucked, he got butthurt and pulled the entire project (back then Zdoom was still popular so nobody cared as much)

The Democrats take corporate bribes just the same as the GOP so how can you say one is better than the other? Because one is more pro-LGBT? Which is a sideshow of a sideshow when it comes to really what is wrong in the US.
They take bribes to ignore corporate power, they will bust unions but just behind the scenes rather than openly like the GOP but they still do it anyway. They are two faces of the same coin.

Anyway I believe the elites are kind of worrying about us having free and open access to the Internet, they want to take it away from us. They have reacted very late to it but now their response is coming. They've seen what the people having access to free comms does, esp. in Nepal recently - so they want us all having a China style Internet where we must authenticate our real names with no anonymous posting at all.

The UK's Online Safety policy is a big beta test of the beginning of it - they have seen there was no real pushback to it, so they will start rolling it out in the US as well. Red states first, then country wide. Then they will widen its scope - socal media, eventually everything.

Then crack down on VPN's - in the UK you can easily bypass the safety act with TOR for adult sites but social media will be different as they can tie your account to a location. So VPN's won't really matter as what they care about is the people being able to mobilize. They then cut off all non authorised social media (so no Telegram or other services with anonymous access) and they can police everyones comms.

And they may well get away with it as well, do you think the people are smart enough to use PGP? George Carlin saw all of this coming and said - we get the govt we deserve - if the American people are stupid enough to vote these people, (after all there could always be a mass vote for a third party) - well you get what you deserve.

In the UK now the ruling uniparty (Labour + Tories) are starting to sweat as people are mass voting for a new party Reform. But I'm sure they can find a way to infiltrate and control Reform if they want to. Can't see something similar happening in the US as people seem bound to their Party as if they are football teams (like you seemingly are with the Dems) which allows them to divide and conquer. In the UK the people know the parties are clowns and have little loyalty - Labour totally lost their working class support long ago.

Amazingly it is true, in some Southern states anyway; America never ceases to amaze me.

https://publications.aap.org/p...

It is only used in 4% of US public schools however and seems to be a "paddling" that gets administered, so perhaps not the old Victorian birching but still it says a lot about the psyche of the US south that this is still going on.

I get that "Experiencing Interruptions?" popup on my home machine with uBlock origin, and my works machine with a run of the mill corporate filter - but I don't actually get any interruptions - Youtube works just fine. I suspect they know they can't identify adblockers 100% correctly - so they can't put a "You are blocking ads!" popup on when it might affect normal users who are behind filters.

Their last attempt at blocking uBlock worked for about 6 hours before it was business as ad-free usual. They would have to embed ads in the video stream itself to really block them.