The Hill misquoted Alphabet, which did not refer to "false election content", but rather to "elections integrity policies".

Yes, Parkinson's law comes into play, but IMO that will be mostly at the nation-state level.

I think you're too railroaded about attention. The larger AI goals remain the same: pattern recognition and modeling. Attention achieves pattern recognition but not modeling. And one can imagine there might be a far more efficient paradigm to achieve pattern recognition. Think radix sort vs. bubble sort.

Bubble #4 is that already algorithmic improvements are reducing the number of GPUs needed for the same result. I've called the attention mechanism the E=mc^2 moment that ushered in LLMs. What if, instead of the aforementioned ongoing incremental improvements, there is another sharp discontinuity beyond attention -- such as LeCun's JEPA, or embodiment championed these days by Musk -- that also happens to obsolete the GPU?

It is said the human brain is 1 exaflop. Today, that requires 20 MW, but the human brain requires only 20 W. We may wake up one day with a bunch of nuclear reactors we don't need.

Is that so that when the H1-B loses his job and gets sent back to India, he has to sell his sister to pay back the fee borrowed from BigH1Bcorp?

If social media can survive advertising, it can survive AI

FTR, I selected the phrase "respecting copyrights" specifically to avoid judging right or wrong on present copyright policy.

If MidJourney and Photoshop are both tools, then so is a tool to download copyrighted films (which is clearly not respecting copyrights).

Copyright law already distinguishes between exact copies, derivative works, and fair use. All delineated by fuzzy boundaries. So it's contextual, based on circumstances. In the case of MidJourney, to comply with copyright law, they probably need to put up guardrails like GPT5 already has done. GPT5 will outright refuse to draw Superman, but MidJourney happily complies. If guradrails let something slip through, then maybe there should be a DMCA take-down mechanism.

I hate it when people say "my computer used a kilowatt of energy". Same here. 1.6 years per what? I believe it's per 8 years of the study. So annualized that's an acceleration of (9.6/8)^(1/8) = 2.3%/year. Now, in real life it's probably not cumulative like that. Their study group was middle-aged. It's quite possible that consumption brings cognitive capacity down to a lower baseline and stays there. But the 2.3% number gives you a flavor of the acceleration rate.

"requiring information blackout"? As a U.S.-based website, it should read (at minimum) "prompting information blackout".

That requires a 5G tower, which would not be available to rural customers

There are still dial-up services available:

• NetZero
• MSN
• Juno

With a specification coming out in 2028, that means the very first (enterprise, high-end) products can be expected 2030 at the earliest. And that's based on past (PCIe5 and earlier) rapid adoption. PCIe6 was standardized three years ago and there are still no motherboards.

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I like Windows. But I like unified memory more.

It's super-trite, but true: technology can be used for good or bad.

I love the productivity gains and breadth of instructional knowledge AI has given me.

I hate that when I'm on Facebook I have to spend half my time blocking groups that generate AI summaries of classic TV shows and characters (that I'm otherwise a big fan of and follow).