LOL it was the last crash that created the "you're the product" tech industry. Everyone woke in 2000 and realized nobody had a real business plan, and started sell; tech's answer was monitize the users.

Holly crap dude you think with regulating big tech is going to give you more freedom. I have 20% share in the Brooklyn Bride if you are interested, I am willing to sell for pennies on the dollar!

Seriously all regulating AI will do is make it harder or impossible for open source and open models. Regulation is what Anthropic and OpenAI want, they are littleral asking for it. Why? Because they only have a realistic revenue stream and by extension business if either; the history of computers getting faster and cheaper suddenly stops.. or they can someone legally keep people from publishing stuff and others from selling hardware. That is 100% what that is all about no matter what they say, and Democrats will play right into it. We all better hope they don't get both Houses.

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

I expected to wake up to this some day, but I did not expect to wake up to it TODAY. This is very sad news but I can say boldly that Patrick Stewart led a full and meaningful life and had a profound positive impact on the world around him.

Good night, Sir Stewart.

Not like IPv6 solves anything with lots of ISP blocking inbound IPv6 connections.

Right that is the real problem isn't. Google has not yet worked exactly how to stuff enough ad impressions to make money without destroying the utility the user is getting out of the experience to the point they are likely to abandon Google for a traditional search engine or go pay for Chat-GPT or something.

Really 'ad words' in AI summaries ought to be "easy" from an implementation standpoint. The 'problem' is doing its going to use even more tokens that need to be paid for.

I agree

The winners here are going to be people with actual hardware IP (Nvidia, Apple, others), people with actual hardware fabs, and likely Google and Meta. I predict despite the current crazy valuations the Magnificent-7 eventually end up acquiring the leading AI labs.

The real costs are in building models, not hosting them comparatively speaking and that picture only improves as the energy infrastructure and hardware markets gradually align to the volume demands. The labs are already just reselling the hyperscallers computer, there is no reason those guys are not going to take 'good enough' models and beat them on price.

Having the 'best' models is an asset someone with existing SaaS, Marketing, etc business on the hand can leverage and by extension justify the expense. That is why I see OpenAI and Anthropic eventually becoming acquisition targets once the gold-rush investors capitulate on their valuations.

The option is for them to get directly into the datacenter biz (not contracting for them and agreeing consumption commitments but actually building them and owning the dirt all they way up to the roof top chillers. Anthropic seems to be trying to make that play but I still don't know where the revenue will really come from...

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Happens way more than people think.

Privacy badger does. Maybe check what rendering engine brave is built on there bud.

The quote "Mars needs women" is from Archer, a show.
And Mars is a planet, it dont care, just like Earth dont care if we kill ourselves off.

What sites were you going to where it crashed every 5 minutes? WTF is this BS? LOL...

Cool, Im staying on firefox because ublock origin is allowed, and not root blocked like chromium.
Enjoy your ads.