In the 1960s there were huge differences in costing structures.
Labour was cheap: Professional footballers earned GBP £15 per week! Machinery was dear. But bespoke machinery wasn't a lot dearer.

JFK set up the Moon mission as "Our country versus the Russians," and everyone in Nasa then felt the country was behind them. Who is behind the budget-cut Nasa today? Who is behind Musk or Bezos? Where is the encouragement, the fervour of war time? Nasa needs a wad of cash and a torch under it's behind, and it has neither.

Back 100 years ago after WW1, manufacturers foresaw that each household in the Excited States would have the essentials. Marketing taught them to reposition their luxury items as 'essentials' through advertising. It's been working ever since.

But now, people might be finally copping on that they have all the 'essential luxuries' they need. What a pity we've nearly destroyed the planet getting there.

As new devices come along, there is a constant need for drivers. Some of these have very detailed data, others extend existing standards.

Other components, and this is the Holy Grail of such efforts, are totally closed source. Apple, for instance revealed nothing about their M1 GPU officially. But a set of header files was leaked, which allowed diligent reverse engineering by Asahi Linux of a good degree of control over the M1 & M2 GPUs. But the M3 & M4 GPUs are unknown quantities still.

Apple are not alone in withholding data. Many hardware manufacturers do so. If AI could pass that sort of test by trying all the angles, it could genuinely do something humans can not.

This is somebody Making America Great Again. I can laugh - I'm an ocean away in Europe. Prices to here are down 20-30% on AliExpress for the few items I checked. Right now it seems he's making something else.

Actually, the situation is just like 'Humphrey' explained in "Yes Minister." You keep Managers who understand a subject away from managing that area, because they'd want to get involved and do things. You appoint someone who knows nothing so he/she can just "manage."

Except in this case, they've done it with the workers too! But seriously - what girl/guy at IT Manager level would spend the rest of his life sinking his toe into the very large & soft a&ses in the Civil Service? The one suitable guy I know would skip the country first.

"Nobody wants to use this" = There's no market. He's right.

This has had far too many delays. If you start designing hardware when an idea is hot, your hardware is obsolete by the time ready. I rekmember the 'big thinker' who tried to make a 'super pc' out of 2 '286s. It's super hard, and they're too slow, so the project tanked. So will this.

Exactly my thoughts. I use a 2014 Hyundai. Model changed in 2015. For a while there were videos on youtube showing how to steal 2015-2021 Hyundai models using only a phone & usb cable! Who needs that?

AI was/is all fine when it provides an answer, ande you are gioven the illusion it knows or can find out stuff.

Citations is going to lay bare what BS is being quoted. In many cases it will undermine the 'authority' of the AI model if you don't respect it's source. Do AI models read https://retractionwatch.com? Am I going to be quoted any nutcase as an authority simply because his one sane viewpoint aligns? Isn't the Internet the globe's largest open sewer?

I'm not surprised the brain is healthier in space. All the A**holes and stress are here on earth!

Go back to the beginnings in England, where much of this comes from. From the 11th to 13th centuries, French was the language
of the Royal Court, and Latin was the legal language. Thereafter English was used and written by scribes, who were paid by the
word (or letter). So they enriched themselves. The phrase "Now or at any point in time" simply means "Now," but it's worth more
to the scribe. Those phrases have been tested in courts, so are not changed.

Until some hostile passes over dragging it's anchor :-D.

What I'd love to know is this: There is considerable poorly informed discussion (dare I say argument?) about what form the water canopy mentioned in the Bible took. Indeed, many argue it never existed. Nobody knows exactly, but many seem to think they do.

I don't know, and for no reason I am interested in defending here, I feel that a lot more atmosphere may have existed prior to the Flood and been topped by a water vapour canopy. When the canopy went, the extra atmosphere simply drifted away. But I'd love to know how this ambipolar field would affect the various postulations about that time.

After noting SBF's considerable assets, I suppose the LF feel there's money to be made handling all these contributions towards OSS. I very much preferred the days when the Linux Foundation basically did nothing except a few annual press releases.

The B.S. press release made little sense to me, and I think I'd have a problem if it did. I hope they're ignored by the programmers with marketable skills who are the real assets of OSS. These are guys who make OSS the envy of every tight-assed closed source company. I really hope they don't somehow manage to become "The Systemd of OSS" who wants to have a buggy finger in every pie.

Watch out for standards or trademarks next, as a method of excluding non cooperative projects, and including compliant ones. This will have nothing to do with quality, but will be all about obedience or compliance.

Do you believe everything you read online?

If AI believes everything in the LLMs (and it seems to), then the results will always be poor.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

So they're hoping for "general intelligence" by harvesting:

The usual trivia, revenge posts, put-downs, etc from social media.
Influencer B.S. & media.
Books of a bygone era.
Electioneering verbiage from the dozens of places having elections this year.
Propaganda from the various sides in the many wars going on, etc.

. Surely the Internet is the LAST PLACE one should look trying to make sense of the world. Yet that willbe what their model will be trained on. Will they isolate qualities like: Politeness; discretion; consideration; unselfishness? I don't think so.