When you read "AI" on Slashdot, or in a business article, it's almost certainly a language model made by one of a handful of companies.

If it's about Nvidia it might have something to do with robots.

Free market capitalism has as a core principle the importance of market forces. That is, democracy.

Zuckerberg gained control of billions of dollars because he correctly judged that the people wanted to play hot or not with pictures of their friends and would accept psychological manipulation in return. He spent billions on VR because he thought it would work even better.

If you're American, "democracy" has had lots of opportunities to spend money on health care and does so to considerable excess.

The GGP was demonstrating how using ellipses to remove half of a post could make it sound silly. I was agreeing with them by demonstrating that it also works on single words.

OP was talking about a "powerful" GPU. There ain't no free lunch. You don't get magical heat and power benefits from putting a chiplet in a package with a CPU versus it's own little plastic house. Quite the opposite, at least where heat is concerned.

Reform copyright, allow derivative works, abolish moral rights. What's the worst that could happen? Solves the problem of AI being "inspired" by existing works. Well, perhaps someone will write a crappy HP-inspired story about Tanya Grotter, a machine-gun wielding lady wizard who goes after bad Chechens (that is a real book, BTW). So what? The goal of copyright is cultural abundance, and that will (eventually) include AI generated works.

Look at Nosferatu, considered to be one of the great vampire movies. The movie was called that because they did not secure the copyright to the Dracula story, and after a lost lawsuit they had to destroy all copies and negatives. Luckily a few survived, and we can still enjoy it.

Exactly what background and/or career does prepare one well for the presidency? A law degree? Founding a successful business? A career in politics? An MBA? Perhaps being a comedian. Or perhaps the job (like many high level managerial jobs) is such a complex multi-faceted one that no career is going to prepare you for it, and no background is a great predictor for success. Perhaps it is more about personality than experience, but even that is not a great predictor. I've seen plenty of politicians who looked great for the job, only to turn out complete rubbish, or the other way around. Or a brilliant mayor who turned out to be a shit minister. And it depends on circumstances as well... one of our MPs is remembered as lackluster and ineffectual, but I think he would have been great if times had been different. Likewise I think that Zelensky would have been a so-so president in peacetime conditions... but he stepped up brilliantly after his country got invaded. Kind of how people look back on Churchill... before the war, people didn't think he was all that either.

Third options never go anywhere in a de facto two party system. You need 2 stage voting: "I want to vote for [independent candidate] but if he doesn't make the cut, I want my vote to go to [rep / dem]"

The way integrated GPUs typically work is they're a chiplet: a separate die in a package with some other dies, like the CPU. If you shove a Blackwell or whatever die into a package with a CPU it's going to have the same power and heat dissipation requirements as if it were by itself, but complicated because it's physically co-located with the other hottest part of the computer.

You save a bit on cost and maybe a bit on space with integrated graphics, but not really that much. the actual GPU chip isn't very big, and it's the same die you have to shove in that integrated package anyway. The big advantages to integrated are not size, weight, power or head, but a fast bus between the CPU and GPU and, usually, direct access to system memory.

So what benefits from a fast GPU with high CPU bandwidth and lots of relatively slow memory? Not games. AI.

It's not just that. People exhibit overconfidence all the time. From social media and casual conversation to public policy, It's a deep cognitive bias in our species.

Religion is maybe the best example. Don't know what the fuck is going on? Just make up a story that sounds good.

I have an induction oven that can melt the steel your wok is made of.

Reading comprehension is important. As is attention to detail.

The real sad case is that there's nothing in the vast collection of film and TV that suits your taste. There seems to be plenty for everyone else.

The matte coating decreases contrast. People like contrasty displays, and most people don't use them outside. I wouldn't be surprised if matte coatings also reduce the resolution on high resolution displays significantly.

OpenAI's models, and most of the LLMs, are trained at least in part by having humans rate their conversations. That's what the "chat" in chatGPT stands for. Humans apparently rate chat partners that make up truthy sounding stuff more highly than chat partners that admit they don't know.

That's a useful finding for a company that makes LLMs. It should be an interesting observation for people who talk to other people too.

I'm sure he does. You can buy an induction heater that will be happy to melt steel for $20 off Aliexpress. There are lots of DIY plans for them too, although I doubt you could beat that $20.

E.g. https://www.instructables.com/...

The claim that you can't get things hot enough with induction is ridiculous. Induction is what you use when cheap old gas isn't hot enough. If you want even hotter, you use microwaves.

I don't believe you that anyone bitched about the loss of the floppy drive.

Too young maybe? Releasing an iMac without a floppy drive had much the same impact as releasing an iPhone without a 3.5" headphone jack. A lot of the old articles have disappeared, and apparently the Slashdot comments, but e.g.

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

There were a LOT of articles written about it. Tech journalist careers were made.