What makes this more than lazy clickbait?
If this guy spontaneously dropped dead why would anyone who matters care?

Mini golf is so yesterday! The cool kids play micro-golf with an election microscope.

Barring that, there's always the DIY version using a plastic straw and a tiny ball of paper.

Actual tech articles would be posting AI papers and explaining what's novel, or showing videos about robots built by grad students in a university lab.

That happens here sometimes.

NonActual tech articles would be reporting on doomsday predictions and functioning as a media mouth-piece for AI company CEOs, whenever they are pushing an agenda.

That happens here a lot.

The best analogy I know is from digital media (movies, songs, ebooks...).

An AI model comprises a set of weights (lots of numbers) and an inference engine (the code that creates the tensors, loads the weights, executes the input/output loop, etc). The weights are like a movie/music/book file, and the inference engine is like a player/player/viewer software.

So in this analogy, an open weight model is like a movie MP4 file. You can play it as intended. But if you have a movie editor, you can also extract image stills, cut out some sections, move them around, rearrange the movie scenes, crop the action, etc. What you cannot do is recreate the original movie, because you don't have the actors, the sets, the cameras and the ideas.

But Open Source an Open Weight model is not.

Why does he even care to get out of jail? He's on record telling everyone who'd listen that his risk aversion is close to zero. That literally means he doesn't care what the outcome of his bet is. Well, he made the bet, and being in jail is the outcome.

Also, what could he possibly do out of jail that he can't already do in jail? Clearly he's able to talk to people, which he could do outside too. Nobody will listen to him inside or out, because he's a convicted fraud. Also in jail he gets 3 square meals per day. Outside he would have to get a job just so he could buy the meals to sustain himself.

So it comes down to personal preference. He may prefer to be out of jail to enjoy some personal money and wealth that he's kept for himself. But wait. He's an Effective Altruist. And he's on record having signed the Giving Pledge. Why would he have kept money when he's been trying to give it away to worthy causes?

lol. To *ever* exist? Do you hear yourself? Maybe step back from the bong.

The US is by no means the most powerful country on Earth ever or even today (btw how's the oil price going today?). And rich depends entirely on completely arbitrary units of account: The dollar didn't even exist a few centuries ago, and McDonald's is certainly not an indicator of a high living standard.

What is unquestionably true is that Americans live in a shared delusionary state about how good and important their country is. I generally view this with mild disdain, but you do you.

I'm glad though that you are being confronted with the reality of how people actually perceive the US in the rest of the "1st" world. A small dose of cold water has never done any harm to anyone, and judging by your lunatic outburst, you definitely need someone to tell you.

This. Madoff didn't get in trouble until he started fleecing people who were richer than he was. Then it became an issue.

Yup. A better article about it:

https://www.quantamagazine.org...

The "new electrical demand" and "expected growth" are usually based on plans, connection requests, etc. A lot of it is speculative and isn't being built.

You don’t need kW of energy to store or host an image but you do to host AI.

Kilowatts is not a measure of energy. You do need kilowatts to serve many image requests per second. You don't need much energy to serve a single AI request. You do need kilowatts to serve many per second.

To put it in a car analogy, you've decided you don't like Fords so you're just going to say bad stuff about Fords that doesn't even really make sense.

I'm pretty sure it's our ability to assign properties to things based on zero evidence.

Or would that be un-American?

Apparently. There was a push to ban football around the beginning of the 1900s. It was properly brutal, with lots of people, mostly school kids, dying from injuries. Teddy Roosevelt though it was essential for building character though, and bullied many of the colleges into keeping their teams. He did compromise and push for important rule changes though.

https://www.history.com/articl...

Nah. I suspect one of the Sony executives vibe coded the whole game himself in an afternoon, and at the board meeting they all agreed that they don't need Kojima any more.

Lol. Do you think 1st world countries have any love for America? We also consider the US to be a social and cultural shit hole. We just tend to be polite about it, at least in public.

Precisely. All confusions in this thread arise from conflating these two companies into one entity.

Roman emperors used to enjoy fitting actual weapons to some guys in the Coliseum. Nobody objected.