Well, one scenario is letting the hype get ahead of the capabilities, and do the 'AI store' experiment, but for real with responsibility for something actually important.

Another is that it is far easier to just screw things up than it is to make things work. I may not have it in me to make a house of cards, yet I can trivially even accidentally destroy a house of cards someone else built without a whiff of understanding.

The assessment of the capabilities based on bottom line certainly is subjective, which is precisely why Jensen Huang is so aggressively gung-ho about we must do everything we possibly can to spend more money on nvidia stuff. The motivation for Anthrophic seems either they have legitimate concerns or are looking to rationalize a plateau after promising the world. It certainly doesn't serve their bottom line to slow down otherwise.

That's likely part of the problem.

It stocked a bunch of cool nifty things that people talk about but don't necessarily want to buy (or buy many of/often).

The museum gift shop description sounds like that to me anyway. Like I bet it has rope loop guns there.

Sort of like what thinkgeek was back in the day.

My friend's daughter already does this for a local supermarket.

She fulfills online orders meant to be picked up completed. It's not a terrible job either.

I suspect the audrino hobbyist market is functionally zero relative to radio shacks footprint. It'd be essentially the same as the business closing financially.

I think AI is a great term.

It's ARTIFICIAL intelligence. It's not real intelligence.

The problem is somehow people think it means real intelligence and treat it as such.

Sorry to break it to you, but in something as latency-demanding as iRacing we notice the 16.67 ms added by switching FFB modes. Adding over 70 ms for video encoding and decoding latency is horrendous. At 300 km/h / 186.4 mph you will travel 6.25 m / 20.5 feet in 75 ms. Heh. That's an eternity.

You're talking about rendering done by the app. I am talking about these devices taking what has already been rendered by the app, encoding it with a video codec, and decoding it at the other end with a video codec, and playing that back for you. It is a completely separate and unnecessary set of two operations.

Wrong. Someone objectively measured the latency with electronic equipment. The latency is objectively bad. I use my VR headset for racing cars in iRacing. The cable is irrelevant to me. I want a low-latency VR headset, which this thing is not. You have no idea what you are talking about, as much as you think you do. The latency of this thing is over 70 ms. We specifically avoid doing things that add a mere 16.67 ms because we are affected by it. We've tested both ways extensively, and the extra 16.67 ms is noticed in blind testing. It matters. Adding over 70 ms is not desirable in any way, nor would it go unnoticed. Maybe *you* wouldn't be affected by it with whatever you may choose to do with your VR headset. *I* would be affected by it with whatever I choose to do with my VR headset. And what I choose to do is fast-paced and very latency-affected.

And unfortunately, this is not that. For PC usage they seem to be doing the same thing that Meta foolishly did. They turned it into a video codec system that encodes video on the PC, streams that to the device, and the device decodes it and then displays it. Encoding and decoding via video codecs take time. That means the latency is going to be horrible, just like it is with current Meta video players. Gamers Nexus showed latency numbers for the Steam Frame, and while it is better than the Meta crap, it is still crap itself. I just want a nice VR headset for my PC. My PC can already run games. I just need a display device to connect to it. Hopefully the RAM/storage crisis will have them develop a "dumb" version that's just a regular ass VR headset. I'd buy one of those. I ain't buying this video playback device.

A tourist to San Francisco probably thinks it's like LA since that's the majority of what we see in media too (Hollywood being there and all).

Of all you've seen is surfing, beaches, and partying in open courtyards: San Francisco can definitely be a shock.

I've been to both.

Windy and 0degrees f in a NY winter is much colder.

Which isn't to say that temperatures in the 50s (especially after a sunny day) aren't light jacket weather. But NY winters are brutal. I've never felt the cold of sleety 35 degree day with high winds in San Francisco. To say nothing of a windy sub zero night.

That's no longer true.

People getting home from work and cranking up the AC tends to be more demand than daytime in modern times.

And here a bunch of us ignorant clods were thinking that owning mechanisms was the point of patents.

I find the fact that it can play some games interesting and there's probably something to follow up there for those smarter than me.

(Though I don't care enough to see how well it plays the games it's "good" at).

I think it's more:

Company falling behind in AI tells everyone "let's slow down".

My understanding is that they're pretty similar in performance and an order of magnitude more expensive than the Chinese models (some of which are open weight), and behind Anthropic and even Alphabet now for work.