It's all about keeping the hype machine going. Sure A.I. is improving at a very rapid pace. But it is still not anywhere near to the level of the hype. A.I. is a useful tool but all these A.I. companies are operating at enormous losses. None of them have turned a profit. Many consumers of A.I. are finding out the hard way that A.I. token consumption is more expensive than human staffers. They are also finding out that even a 28% failure rate is way too high. SalesForce, Amazon, Microsoft, and now Ford have backpedaled. Soon the investors are going to want a return on investment. Soon the token cost is going to need to be increased. Soon we will be running out of electricity and consumer electronics are starting to feel the pinch of inflated RAM / Storage pricing after Micron decided to exit the consumer market so they could make over a Trillion selling to A.I. data centers. Apple just raised their prices, others will soon follow. Electric prices are going way up and some places are talking about austere measures to conserve electricity. Those states need to jack up the price for the data centers so they can invest in increasing power production.

There are major advancements in semiconductors that will greatly increase efficiency thus reducing electricity costs tremendously. The problem is it costs trillions and takes a decade or more to retool FABs to use the new designs. There are also nuclear reactor designs that are much smaller and a thousand times safer than what was built originally. But the general public fears nuclear. These new designs make it impossible for a meltdown to occur, etc. Data centers are already pursuing nuclear power if they get past the regulatory red tape.

The problem is A.I. is moving faster than the supporting infrastructure can be built. We need to move faster to keep up. There may be a tipping point and the bubble may burst. It won't kill A.i. but the hype will disappear if the bubble bursts as investors see their money is being burned with no return on investment.

The only thing I ever used a FireStick for was to connect to my media server with an App Store approved app when I traveled and used hotels.Worst case scenario, I could jack in the FireStick to HDMI and connect the power cable to a USB port. It beats using a tablet or a phone to watch content on a small screen. The more modern tech savvy hotels you can just stream via AirPlay or Chromecast to the TV from a smartphone.

The side-loaded pirate streaming apps are what the newbs use who don't know any better.

Sadly, server storage is expensive again...

When applying for a position at a corporation, if you are suddenly thrust into an A.I. driven job interview process. ABORT IMMEDIATELY AND COMPLAIN LOUDLY AND PROFUSELY. Nothing quite so insulting as a corporation hiring but refusing to perform basic human interaction to find an appropriate candidate.

I just bought my first hybrid, the 2025 Toyota Camry XLE. I couldn't be happier! It accelerates faster than my Audi A4 and it more than doubles my miles per gallon. I receive 530 miles per 13 gallons of 87 octane fuel range. I can refill in 3 minutes and keep going like any normal internal combustion engine. Toyota makes the best EVs and everything they learned from the Prius is making it's way across their entire fleet. Lexus as well.

The problem with EVs is the charge network. Only Tesla does it right.I personally do not like Teslas. They look and feel like a plastic shell slapped on an EV skateboard. The interior feels cheap and boring. The time to charge is not something I would ever want to experience on a long road trip.

I am sure the Chinese will build out an infrastructure for EV charging. But they are not known for quality control and safety. So many dangerous Chinese products across the board. Poisoned cats & dogs because they cheated by chemically treating the dog food so it would appear to have more protein than it really had. Lead paint in toys for babies and toddlers. Infant baby formula sickened thousands and unalived many. Cooking oil extracted from street gutters and packaged and sold. Plastic rice, fake eggs, counterfeit pharmaceuticals and endless defective electronics.

I wouldn't trust a Chinese EV at all. I certainly wouldn't park one in a garage attached to your house. This is all Belt & Road Initiative where the CCP helps poor nations but what they are really doing is strip mining their natural resources and sending it back to China. When the CCP is finished they will just leave and those poor people will be left with a toxic mess and deadly products everywhere. Honestly, the Chinese CCP have zero respect for human life. A worker is injured in one of their factories and can no longer do the job. Well bye. That's it. They replace them. Pratt & Whitney sent my father and some other over there in the 90's looking to outsource some parts. They were stunned by the numbers of workers missing an eye, fingers, limbs, various disfigurements such as burn scars. They are worked very hard for very little pay and then they are abandoned when they are no longer productive. There are almost zero safety controls in these factories.

Browsers with privacy features are not breaking websites. It is the website developers coding JavaScript to prevent you from blocking ads by blocking your access to their content. It does not stop A.I. and a paywall won't either. I bet the A.I. companies all have hundreds of paid subscriptions and they mask their identity with fake user profiles. Yes they are paying the subscriptions. But then A.I. doesn't even need to render a page, it reads the code and accesses the raw content then reformats it in an outline summary of the meat without all the junk.

The general public thinks A.I. is real. They are running long chat sessions and going to down rabbit holes when A.I. starts hallucinating. It has really hurt people with mental health issues and the mentally impaired but also the ignorant. I do not think children should be using A.I. without adult supervision.

I want to use A.I. but I am finding it making many mistakes and it's just easier to DIY. Most of the time it's just running web queries and compiling a summary of the key bits of detail. Only sometimes is it useful. There is a lot of bad incorrect information online. Garbage-In / Garbage-Out. A.I. will write code and when you test it, it fails then it's back and forth and maybe you get it working or maybe not. I usually get frustrated with the bot, seek primary source information and figure it out. Sometimes it saves me time and effort and other times it wastes my time. I've seen it make guesses which is why I think it fails.

A.I. is a B.S. Engine and it is faking it till it makes it. Chatbots are not where it is at. I would like a highly focused agent tuned to the task at hand and it needs to be an expert. It needs to be easier to build an agent and train it.

Feed A.I. with hot garbage and you get hot garbage instead of verified vetted factual information. This is why an Enclyclopedia is more accurate than Wikipedia, etc. Human information needs to be processed by humans and validated as correct. Science is all about proving everything. Well not so online with news or social media. Nope that can be completely incorrect and is frequently so.

AI is not intelligent. It's a mimic regurgitating what it saw online. AI is useful for many things but it's not "there yet". It might not get "there yet" until quantum becomes far more advanced than it is now. The hype train is fueling A.I. due to the immense promise and potential for AI in the future.

Lots of stories of companies deploying AI and much like Tesla Autodrive they trust it and end up seriously injured or worse. AI still cannot be trusted.An amateur cannot wield AI without knowing the suject matter at hand. Otherwise, AI will start halucinating and feeding you lies and made up B.S.

Artificial Intelligence is merely a B.S. generator at this point... Sure it can seem really smart at times but completely clueless at other times. It also tends to wish to please you and therefore will lie to you.

This is all done so the government can spy on their civilians. That's what it is all about. The CCP having control and surveillance of citizens using these computers. The state is already a surveillance state and they disappear people and entire families all the time. When missionaries have to lie to enter the country and get picked up at the airport, change vehicles and clothing 5 times. Enter an apartment block where someone has tampered with the cameras and the lights. Enter a nondescript apartment to find 50 people sitting on the floor eagerly awaiting the evangelist preacher from the West. When dissidents have their organs harvested or they are turned into those plasticized human bodies on tour exhibits. Lucky if you only end up in a labor camp. One only needs to look at what they did to the Uyghurs. Many were just executed, the rest were placed into Chinese homes and forced into slavery while they were 'reprogrammed' to accept the Communist beliefs. They have a real Dark Mirror dystopian social score. You can't buy / sell / conduct business / travel without a good enough social score.

DO NOT TRUST CHINA, they are ASSHOLES...