Another way of looking at this if western companies are screwed.. hardware prices return to planet earth where more people are able to run this stuff at home. Three years ago the cost of 512GB DDR5 was less than the cost of a single 4090 GPU today.

What is the objective basis of your statement? Do you reject benchmark results? If so what have you used in their place to make such a determination?

What data points do you have to support exponential growth of logical qubit count with time?

Please yes, I would love an explanation how your reference is responsive to "Wake me up when they create one with even 100 reliable logical qubits." given the experimental device you referenced did no such thing.

My initial knee-jerk reaction is that it isn't woke enough which is why woke outfits like the bulwark are calling it boring. These are the same people who called the everything everywhere random AI slop movie "profoundly moving" and "great".

Keep in mind I have zero clue what is actually in this movie and most probably will never see it.

These can be published or accessed, but never both at the same time.

This is from someone who doesn't understand the difference between a qubit and a logical qubit.

It has been my experience, sad to say, that online stores aren't above selling consumer credit card information either, and I've grounds to think Amazon is one that does this.

I have an industrial air conditioner for my home. (It's a small home, but summers are increasingly severe.)

I don't recall being asked a damn thing.

My suspicion is that this is scaremongering.

Of course it does. TPM keys are stored in HARDWARE onboard a specific motherboard. This creates unnecessary and unwanted dependency on specific hardware.

On my PC the TPM is wiped whenever a BIOS update is installed. This behavior is extremely common.

I have been stress-testing AIs with increasingly complex projects for some time. The Chinese AIs struggle, but actually do a FAR better job of handling massively complex tasks than Grok, and Gemini just rolls over and whimpers at anything above a very low level of complexity.

What I've found is that the Chinese AIs tend to be sycophant but do "understand" complex projects properly in that you can ask specific technical questions and the answers will be generally very accurate. Any sort of critical analysis is beyond them, though. (Ether that, or I'm a mega-genius. Which....doesn't sound terribly likely.)

Of the "Top AIs", ChatGPT is good on basics but is incapable of any kind of detailed generation. Claude is brilliant at detailed generation, but overloads with anything but a tiny data set.

I've been putting up the projects on Gitlab for a while, so anyone who wants to see an AI break down and cry in despair is able to do so.

The secret tools don't bother me - they'll have long understood how to use Big Data and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses. AI isn't going to find out any more than combinations of those tools will, because that's basically all AI is - a Big Data classification system.

So you're telling Claude something vague and washy, then Claude invents a prompt that might vaguely possibly be somehow related to what you want along with a drink that is almost but not entirely quite unlike tea. Claude then recurses through this until it has a Celtic knot so intricate that it has its own Hausdorff dimension. What burps out is a product that is completely useless and patented to the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

Why would anyone give two shits about unnecessarily disruptive change when there is little to no commensurate value to show for it in return? This isn't the 90s. PCs and operating systems are a mature technology. For many there is more value in continuity.

These days the value proposition is often negative given Microsoft's malware oriented business model depends upon increasing aggression towards its own customers. Endless ads, spying, embarrassing UX regressions and unwanted dependencies rather than useful value.

What was said that was wrong or clueless? Did you have anything something substantive to say?