It's worse than a Ponzi scheme. The major would-be providers of AI are essentially all passing the same billion-dollar bill back and forth to buy each others' "services". And the consumers of AI are setting their reputations R&D teams on fire based on the promise that they can install robots on the ashes, even though if their plan pans out there won't be anybody able to buy services from anyone anymore.

Tim Sweeny is reportedly a big advocate for the value of generative AI in developing games. I think it'd be fair to say he's one of those AI inevitablists.

But money is fungible. If you earn or save a bunch of money through behavior A, then you might not be required to make a sacrifice in order to save or earn that money though behavior B.

So if Sweeny says that the layoffs aren't AI-related, he's either lying or he's admitting that AI isn't helping the company's bottom line after all.

Why bother, I mean, Zuckerberg didn't accept any advice from his previous virtual advisor, who tacitly recommended that he have his legs and eyelids removed.

In reality, people very seldom come together. At least not at the exact same time.

[nods] Dehydration.

It's hard for me personally to imagine anyone who believes that kids having ready cell phone access contributes to their educational success, but I'm sure they're out there. And on here!

Chuck Norris does not rest in peace: he does a perpetual abdominal crunch and waits for Judgement Day. (At which time he'll also be the judge.)

More like "drinking your own hydrofluoric acid" in this case.

Regardless of anything else, no one should need a constitutional amendment to do this. This can just be a regular statute law. Constitutions are for things like birthright citizenship, or "no unlawful search and seizure", or "thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind".

Yes, it certainly does seem bold to embark on a project involving sustained international cooperation with America in 2026. But I suppose they started laying the ground work (literally?) for this long before at least Trump's second term. Still, I don't know that reporting on this is doing them any favors. Hopefully it's just talked about in places like Slashdot, and nothing much gets out to the normies at large, and thence to our abnormie-in-chief.

Anthropic's Claude AI Can Respond With Charts, Diagrams, and Other Visualschat

Clearly this is a typo. It's supposed to say "Visuals Shat".

Oh, no, Confluence has contracted AInfluenza? Where will my company dump its undifferentiated mass of documents that no one has ever bothered to read and, increasingly frequently, no one has even bothered to write?

"Thailand ordered ... government employees to wear short-sleeved shirts over suits."

Okay, but adding another layer like that is just going to make them hotter.

Good idea. Maybe a mobile AI lab set up in a truck that can then be driven into the sea.

Is it the Year of the Monkey on Crack with a Shotgun already?