I do agree that electrical costs make crypto very suspect. Originally it was a cheaper way to ensure honest transactions, as compared to the cost of the current banking confirmation systems. But that no longer applies.

As regards to coinage, you are incorrect. Coinage was originally done as a way to save time testing the metal for purity and weighing it. Here is a set amount of gold/silver/ copper/ etc. that has already been tested and weighed once. Even when they debased the coinage, that amount of debasement quickly became known, so again the coins were a known purity and weight.

People still buy gold coins, melt them down and sell them for industrial uses, and it has less fraud and is quicker and easier than doing it for jewelry

That woman that refused my advances? We fired her because AI took her job. Same with that guy that accused me of stealing his lunch.

I have found LLM /AI to be helpful several times. But not as helpful as checking wikipedia. Or a Youtube video. Similarly, I have upon occasion found a child to be helpful. The child is probably the best comparison, because they both are about as likely to lie when they do not like the answer.

The real problem with the LLM is not so much what it does well, but the so so many things people expect it to do well on that it sucks on. Legal filings are a prime example of it.

Crypto is always a bubble and has always been a bubble. It is either going to be a paradigm shift in how we do money, or it is going to be the next Dutch Tulip story.

There is a clear thought bubble (non-financial ) about AI. People are acting as if it is a real robot brain thinking, when it is not. It is NEVER 'intelligent'. It is always predictions without any creativity/understanding. But that is different from a financial bubble. Strip away the moronic 'AI' bullcrap and just think of it as the new, more advanced, computing style.

Computing power is still a hugely beneficial thing. Betting against computing has never been a good idea since before I was born. Mainly because of Moore's law (and the implications for software). The computing style is basically irrelevant. At some time I fully expect a new computing style to come along that will wipe out LLM, but they will probably use the LLM stuff in some minor way. Much of the hardware investments people have made for the LLM will likely be useful, even if they throw out most of the software.

Debt is a strange thing. It fuels economic growth so massive debt is not always a bad thing. What is bad is when the you can't pay the debt back. Large amounts of debt is basically doubling down. If the economic growth pays off, then the large debt vanishes into smoke as the profits roll in. If you picked the wrong thing to invest in, the large debt makes the bankruptcy much worse.

Bull crap.

They included people over the age of 40. People over the age of 40 CREATED the touch screens.

You have to go to 70+ to get the slow touchers.

It is the furthest north city aside from NYC that Waymo is in. NYC has a really modern snow removal system, while Detroit... does not.

Working in Detroit means they expect it to handle ice and snow well.

No it is not. AI is not trained on how to draw, it already knows how to draw.

It is instead trained on how to draw particular styles. It does not need to learn how to draw using my style in order to come up with it's own style. The only reason to learn to draw my style is to draw my style.

People are different. We can develop our own styles based on other things. That is why it is OK for a person to copy someone else's style AI never does that. They never develop their own style, so have no need to learn other people's styles.

Wow. I think we have a new market for Ford and GM.

Woops, wait a second, how many chinese electronic componenets are used in Ford and GM vehicles?

Note I am using the acronym LLM (Large Language Model) rather than AI (Artificial Intelligence) because what we have are all LLM and have no intelligence.

The entire LLM system is designed to hallucinate. It takes a prompt and predicts what is likely. It does NOT understand what it says, it does NOT make any reasonable attempt to verify.

The best non-fictional prompt for an LLM is "What is wrong with the last response you gave me" It is far more likely to generate a true and accurate response than any other prompt people have tried.

Coca Cola has been doing weird animated Christmas ads since before I was born.

Visually inconsistent = trying multiple things, looking for what works.

Seems like a hullaboo over nothing.

AI has reached the point where it can do most the CAPTCHA's that we used to test humans on.

So it makes little sense to use them any more.

This is a company that hates liberals, loves conservatives. They believe in spying on American citizens. They promote the idea that colleges are propaganda machines that do not teach people.

But surprise surprise they do not like the high school students, so they set up college level classes to teach their high school graduates. Classes they control - so I bet it teaches from a very conservative philosophy. Like going to Prager U.

They then only keep the kids that do well.

I bet their success rate is lower than University hires. But they get people they like - who will have issues quitting and looking for a real job.

Ha Ha Ha.

You think ISPs care about liability? There is no liability. Clearly if they do not have a legal requirement to secure their technology then they do not have a legal responsibility. That is what their lawyers are going to say.

They do the minimum to convince a judge they tried and it was just those nasty criminals that outsmarted them by trying the password "123456"