So a yes then.

is USA, then?

Credit cards predate even cellphones. Having handheld devices for job management also predates the Internet. As you say, they add tech as they choose.

Cellphones definitely had an impact but Internet not so much. We've swapped yellow pages for a search engine. Big whoopee.

The LLM can and will make a mess all on its own. There is no need for external malice to get screwed by the LLM.

It's always gusting somewhere. Especially when the North Sea is right on the doorstep.

Accidentally, it happened post-WW2 due to smog cover over lots of the northern hemisphere creating a mini-cold period in the 1950s/60s. It was a disaster for Africa.

The question becomes what are LMMs good at? Open public uses seem quite limited because of misinformation corrupting the data sources. Search is one effective use.

They are being used in closed environments like for GPs where the data input is clean and note-taking, transcribing, form-filing, summarising are all time savers.

I can't see trillions of dollars in LLMs. The spend is insane. Google might be the only sane player on the field.

Yeah, stupid headline. The whole point of the label "Dark Energy" is it's a filler for an unknown that still needs to be explained.

No, they want everyone to be used and tracked.

A good example of this market mechanism occurred recently with lithium battery tech. Lithium-Cobalt (3.6 Volt per cell) classed chemistries have reigned since their commercialisation in the 1990's. I don't know it's patent history.

In the early 2000's a far more rugged chemistry (One that doesn't spontaneously combust) classed as Lithium-Phosphate (3.2 Volt per cell) was developed and heavily patented. It never gained any popularity until just recently - Immediately following the expiry of the patents.

Agreed,
If Sammy is saying, as the horse-bolting leader, that the biggest gorilla on the planet has already overtaken him then I'm not sure how he thinks he's ever going to get that lead back.

As for AI, LLMs specifically, I don't think there's much money in it at all. Like search, no one is that interested in giving up money for it. It has to be converted to ad revenue to make money.

The other option for kept simple is make the central chassis computer fully open source. Top to bottom. So then any and every tinkerer can maintain all parts.

Electric motors can certainly last. Assuming they don't take a bath, an all-electric solution, kept simple, could easily become reliable long lived vintage in the future.

When I say kept simple, I'm talking about no big-ass computer in the middle. No requirements of connectivity. Stuff like GPS autonomy as an optional extra hardware add-on.

The billionaires are to some extent a tool as well. Or more specifically, they choose to align. We need to look at the politics plain and simple. And to get visibility on that, you need to look at the bundled law changes. One class in particular stands out - the Israel exceptions on crimes.

It's a little like how the President can't be lawfully wrong about anything now. Trump could order an assassination of the opposition leader and it's legal as long as it's done as the President. He even gets to pardon the personnel that carried out the order.