This is "more efficient productivity", meaning more or the same output for less input.

Is it any better when 10 companies create so much demand together that it might as well be a single company with a monopoly? Wish the root issue was identified and solved instead of this "stop certain people, some of the time" stuff.

Almost seems like a good school project. Force the kids to live suddenly without access to a modern convenience, and help them create their own "bill of rights" (what every person in a modern society should be guaranteed). Make all electronics suddenly stop working (on, then off, then on, ...), like a rolling blackout. I'll bet just a few times could be enough (when still dark out, or about to watch something fun, etc). Or clothes stop being washed and taps not giving fresh water. Even for just a few minutes, or long enough to start to feel really thirsty (with health staff on hand). Especially if they're younger, I'll bet it'll make a lasting emotional impression.

I can see a giant competitor using it against a startup, unless structured correctly.

Doing something like this AI hardware demand effect on other device's use of DRAM and NAND supply. Just pre-order a year's worth of production, and the patent becomes useful to them too (spend the year implementing it in your own products).

I thought "use technology A in situation B" weren't allowed to be patented or protected. Like turning existing good solutions into "software on a computer" and patenting it again.

Tool that's designed to mimick trained data set, is aimed at mimicking a person. Seems pretty obvious. This is just s special case of that.

Sure, it is easier to get the people in charge to agree to collect more (sin) taxes, but it would remove the barely affordable sustenance options for many.

There are really simple and obvious reasons people avoid unprocessed foods today. Solve those instead. Don't poison the existing imperfect solutions out of some self righteous messiah complex.

Create a way to know exactly how ripe or "good" something will be (before I buy it). Make it like buying something off a shelf. I always get the same thing I paid for.

Make prepared versions of whole foods cheaply available "everywhere". Why aren't we training every public school student in safe food handling, and giving them a certificate for it?

Remove barriers to competition if we're such big proponents of "free markets". Why can't people sell food from their kitchens easily? How would "lunch" change if you could pre-order a meal that gets delivered automatically, like they do in India (and used to do in Japan).

Make produce more stable while stored at customer's premises. Apples are stored in the cold for grocery store use through the year (between growing seasons). Why not sell them that way so they'll also last for months in our homes?

Why don't we mandate methods to get "waste" food used when needed. What if grocery store produce wasn't allowed to rot in the store, and instead had to be given to those in need while still edible or useful.

Are we more afraid of "undeserved" people getting food cheaply or people starving? I think most people would feel different if they starved themself (fasted) periodically. Oh, and had empathy.

Make an empirical measure for empathy. And force all CEO's to be tested with it...

I'm not familiar with what they're offering as their commercial products, but maybe they're not useful or necessary anymore?

Or they need to advertise them actively now, instead of assuming passive traffic will "show the right people".

Or change how they're able to monetize their work. Times change, and I'd guess software licenses might need to change with them.

CUDA locks people into using NVIDIA hardware, and I doubt that'll change. Yes, the big guys can spend the engineering effort to rewrite software, but that'll give NVIDIA time to release their own inference optimized chips. I'd bet they're already working on some.

Seems they can't track who changes what. And they'll approve it all the same.

Why aren't they using version control already?

Meaning something public/visible, being given away (free software and documentation), and with a government funding/planning to use it?

I'm sure someone smart in academia has already worked on it, but I wouldn't know where to start looking for the intersection of computer science and ???.

I've tossed around the beginnings of ideas, but eventually assumed effective digital identity + authentication was an initial requirement for effective remote electronic voting. Doesn't matter how perfect the system is if you're not sure who cast the vote. Last I looked, a few places were dipping toes into that water (UK, US CA/NY?), but not where I live.

I doubt companies want to publish specifically how they're using AI, in case their competitors aren't doing that yet.

But would an AI company collect, and try to advertise, all the ways their tool(s) are benefiting companies? And lay out the information organized by job title or department. "Here is a list of things we believe we're good enough at..."

Yes, I'm worried about AI breaking our economy if we don't change how things work. But I have no visibility into details beyond the extreme claims from both sides (AI will save/ruin us). I've been out of the labor market for a very long time (health issues I'm slowly working around), so I'm double damned now (yet another unemployed SW engineer).

I came here to make sure the above comment was already visible, but I also sat and thought for a moment. What would be the real solution versus "invent + 1" solution too...

What about a layer that interacted with each local package manager? Basically an easily installed wrapper for any native package manager. It wouldn't do everything the native managers did, but it could offer synonyms between them (RPM names = DEB names) to let people use the terms they're familiar with.

No it isn't solving 100% the same problem, but I'm not sure that is likely to happen in one shot. This would create the interface first. Let them work out the bugs between what can and can't be shared, and later they could try to unify the packages themselves (parameterize what can be shared, etc).

Or maybe I just don't understand all the problems they're solving here. As it stands they're duplicating the native package management work AND making a new interface, right?

If they're predatory, then why can't less predatory people step in?

What prevents better lending?

If only Google saw this and added a way to allow this to run on ALL Android phones.

A number in a vacuum doesn't explain much.

Butterfly environments... did those expand or shrink in quantity and/or area?

What eat them? What do they eat? Do they provide much utility in the ecosystem (I can't remember anymore)? Etc

Or claimed data because of a lack of imagination.

When creating a product you often put in methods to access data. Test support plumbing that might not be easily removed at the end (how can you test the final product if you're missing required parts?).

My guess is they found something like that. Sometimes security is 'by obscurity'. A poor policy choice, but not uncommon.

Or yeah, maybe it's a backdoor used by someone else (heck I'll bet the US and EU would frame China).