It's not the highest scope in the world, but its forte is mass surveys, not resolution, so it doesn't have to try to compete with Hubble. If it finds something interesting, then another resolution-oriented scope can zoom in.

It's great for finding moving and flashing things, as it allows automated comparisons over time of most the sky. This scope might even find Planet X, although let's not call it Planet X because Elon tainted X things. Call it Planet NoElon.

People seem to think that the first living organism to evolve has to be as complex as the simplest cells we know, but more likely it was much simpler. We just don't have any living examples because such protocells probably can't compete with modern ones. The first life-forms can be slow, inefficient, inaccurate at reproducing, etc. because they had zero competition. Somebody joked "union workers evolved first!"

One interesting theory is that the first living thing(s) were actually a set of complimentary proto-cells where reproduction happened in cycled stages say: A to B to C back to A, because self-replicating is hard to get right in a single step. Each stage may have fed off different chemicals. Eventually they evolved into a single unit.

If Musk can be in the space-car-socNet-Borg-terraform-botfarm* biz, then Zuck can be in the socNet-VR-botfarm biz.

* Did I miss any?

That's generally what JavaScript was supposed to be: a glue language that does things like call a GUI engine, it wasn't designed to BE the goddam GUI engine.

sit in the damned dark and accept your punishment for greed and ignorance!

If somebody put the open-source models on an AI server farm(s) and charged only based on what it costs to host and serve them, would the income cover the server farm?

It's nearly impossible to test that right now because it would be competing with subsidized services.

And matrix chips tend to wear out quicker than CPU's, meaning higher replacement costs.

But if they subsidize it to gain market share against western tech they are still distorting prices.

That's FoxGPT

How do you know those aren't subsidized also?

> and the Chinese are always ready with a cheaper product.

Chinese gov't is likely subsidizing those also to gain market-share. So it's in the same boat, perhaps at a different pace though, as they don't have to care what Wallstreet wants

> Open Source AI thingies

Running on in-premises hardware? If cloud-based, the subsidization time-bomb may still play out.

It's a success if you observe the right cats.

The smart-phone boom saved many techies from the wrath of the mortgage bubble econ crash. Even if a dev didn't work on phones, other devs moving to phones kept general dev demand up.

Investor funds and market-share-fights have been subsidizing the cost of AI for end-users. Even if the predictions in the article are exaggerated, the Day(s) of Reckoning will eventually arrive and there will be lots of WTFs.

but to be fair it'll take at least $5 billion to examine it.

But they have a blank-et copyright on such.