If I don't sleep well, trust me I'll know, without an electric device to tell me.
But, if it's not recorded by a digital device, did it even happen? I mean, come on, you can't possible remember things that happen to you without a digital device recording it for you. Can you?
For the slow: Yes, this is sarcasm. But based on what I've seen among the younger folks I know, I fear some people truly believe this way.
So long as they were profitable while doing so, no one will have a problem with it. After all, profit must come before all other concerns.
This is the problem with fetishizing profit and greed. We've lifted the sociopaths up into positions of power because they're the best equipped to set aside compassion, human decency, and concerns for environment or their fellow man. We can't suddenly pretend that the end result of that is a shock. It no longer matters how many are hurt by the actions of the business world. It only matters if it generated a profit while causing that hurt.
I wish we lived in a better world, where compassion and concern for others rose above the need for profit. But in this world, these companies will not be held to account for what they've enabled, because they made money while doing it. And greed is our only god.
Sam Altman is just a nicer version of Trump or Musk.
An unsupportable claim if ever I have seen one.
Really, he's not nicer. He just doesn't have carte blanche to run roughshod over society like Musk and Trump do. Though he is working on it.
... but I get tired of listening to ignorant or just plain stupid people who don't seem to understand that the enviroment is their and their childrens life support system. Perhaps they think as long as there's a supermarket with stocked shelves everythings ok, I dunno. Their thought processes frankly elude me.
What's truly sad is there are some folks who I would deem relatively intelligent on a great number of other subjects, but they have been flooded with messaging their entire lives about how important profit and economic concerns (for the wealthy only, of course) are to the point where anything that may have even a tiny negative impact on profitability, like consideration for the environmental impact of certain business practices, becomes the enemy. And our news cycles are FILLED with this messaging, to the point where it can't be considered anything but propaganda. We are a society so concerned with propping up profit for the already wealthy that we give no concern at all to the thought of changing the environment we live in to the point where it becomes uninhabitable for us. Profit is more important to the decision makers, and too many folks take the news and opinion shows, all owned by these same wealthy folks who profit from changing the environment, as gospel.
Greed will do its damage, because we as a species seem to insist on it to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
It wont happen. 2030 is the milestone whereby demand for clean water outstrips supply.
Ergo - if were aiming to scale AI up to that level by 2030, that situation can only worsen , not improve. Clean Water is a very important component of cooling datacenters.
Denial continues.
The solution to that problem is obvious. Take away drinking water from poor communities to keep the datacenters growing. Duh.
If the wrong solution was good enough
If you ask the likes of the Klarna or SalesForce CEOs, the wrong solution is already good enough. The greatest decline in software quality has only just begun. Decades ago we used to think that badly optimized code was the worst that could happen if poorly educated people did the programming, then it was unstable code that became a "usual" outcome, but now we have reached the point where "software that does not quite perform its primary function" has become an expected result from the LLM wielding vibe-coders that are hired. And I am horrified to observe how "Product Managers" already accept this as the "new normal", and ready for shipping.
Agreed. However, blaming AI alone for the acceptance of "barely functions" software as shippable product is a bit off-base. Accepting the output of AI whether it meets the spec or not and whether it's bug-filled or not is just a slight moving of the needle on a problem that has grown exponentially since the internet / web became an expected commodity for the end-consumer. Once companies realized they could ship completely broken programs and fix it with a service pack, or other form of online update, we've been rushing toward, "Ship the beta, ship the alpha, ship the proof of concept." AI output being used as shippable code is just a tiny little blip on this smooth downward trend-line we've been riding since the early to mid nineties. Shit quality has been a staple of the software industry for decades now. AI as it's being used in the 'vibe coding' sense is only an accelerant of that trend.
Just remember that the laws of physics don't give a fuck, and will crush us with as much ease and as little concern as a tidal wave crushing an ant.
That we imagine we can alter physics by denial is a sign of what an utterly idiotic species we are.
I wish that message wound sink in for the decision makers without having to wait out the entire process.
This is just an attempt to not get pinged by the Trump administration for paying lip service to the Democratic Hoax of Climate Change.
Don't kill the messenger. I'm just saying what's happening. I don't agree with any of it, but we live in a world where the worst offense you can commit is popping up on Trump's radar as paying lip service to something he has decided doesn't exist.
Money spent is not a measure of research quality.
You have to remember, Intel's moves are mostly about pleasing investors. As such, everything is a measure of dollars, whether spent or accumulated. So, this public statement is about showing investors that they're willing to throw their most important resource, money, at R&D, which to an investor sounds like future profits, even if they company has a history of throwing money at R&D and stiff managing to faceplant more often than not before the profit cycle begins on the output of that R&D.
"Gotta spend money to make money," is still an investor wet dream. Note; that phrase does not include the word "wisely," nor, "intelligently." Just spend. Spend until you see results.
The ironic thing is that the phrase "it is only because of you two dickheads that I stayed" is actually a term of endearment. Most British people (likelihood increasing with latitude) would interpret that as "You can both be irritating idiots at times, but despite that I still like you both and that is why I stayed"
That's the funniest part of this whole situation. Plenty of jobs I've worked the boss would have tried to hug me for such a statement. Or at least rubbed my head affectionately.
"If it was anyone else in this position they would have walked years ago due to the goings-on in the office, but it is only because of you two dickheads that I stayed," said Herbert.
Swannell retorted: "Don't call me a fucking dickhead or my wife. That's it, you're sacked. Pack your kit and fuck off."
Wife?
At any rate, somebody's an oversensitive ninny if being called a dickhead, or even having their wife / director (insert joke here) called a dickhead, seems worthy of that retort. Hells, we call each other that on the job all the time and we aren't even in a construction oriented company. What I remember working construction jobs with gramps, dickhead would have been seen as an upgrade over what most of the management got called to their faces by the crews.
At worst, that's a trip to HR and a slap on the wrist. Or just respond with a name yourself and move on with your day. No need to get all wound up over it.
It's the razor blade model. The handle is free, oops I forgot what century we are in, I mean the handle is cheap and they make money on the over priced blades.
A little different. Razor blades didn't include the option of learning from every use. Adobe is just as obsessed as every other company right now with aggregating your data into their cloud so they can train their AI features on it. That's the only reason they're offering this for free to any users. Of course, if the users make heavy use of it and use much cloud storage, they'll be able to charge them for their storage, while still using their data for training their AIs. The more data you give them, the more you get charged. It's a beautiful arrangement. For Adobe.
Thanks for the clarification, though I am not sure we can agree on the definition of "education". I don't know if the important parts have bars to jump over?
That could lead to an entire other discussion of how everything is framed as competition, so of course there are bars to jump over. And a side-discussion of whether that "competition is all" mindset is a healthy one or an obsession that leads to self-destructive tendencies.
I occasionally use the "Deep Research" function which will do all the "googling" for you, gather the sources and summarize, especially if it's something a bit more specific. For example, I was not sure if a certain bike trail was paved all the way to do it with a road bike and I couldn't find this information on the official site. So instead of trying to figure out what sites to check, translate each site from Italian to English and try to dig out this particular info I ask the AI to do it for me. It takes a few minutes, digs through all relavant sites, even discussion forums etc.. gives you an answer and backs it up with sources so you can still go and read it on your own. It is sometimes much easier to have AI do it for you than doom scrolling through random sites, hope your adblock works, trying to ctrl+f for the specific information you are looking for etc.. There are certainly good use cases for this out there so I wouldn't just yell at it.
The ones that provide sources so you can check yourself seem to be very rare. These I don't mind so much. The ones that just gush out info at you with no sources to check drive me absolutely batshit if it's a subject I don't know, and make me even more angry when it's a subject I do know, because most of what they say doesn't seem to relate to reality at all.
The Dia browser, a simpler option that allows people to chat with an AI assistant about multiple browser tabs at once, became available in beta in June. Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said he sees shortcomings in the most popular browsers for those who do much of their work on computers.
Who is asking for AI to assist in web browsing? I see this shit being shoveled at us from all directions, but the internet is already flooded with AI generated garbage, and now we need AI built into the browser to filter through the garbage before we take in the information? That's two extra levels of bullshit just to make sure we can't source information directly, and I don't know of a single end-user that really wants any of it.
We're crapflooding our crapfloods. The info-spew of the Internet has now become the crapflood apocalypse. I must admit, as much as we all knew it was coming, it's coming much faster than even the most imaginative of us had predicted. If the "shortcomings in the most popular browsers" are that they actually allow us to see what it is we're looking for, then apparently we're getting yet another layer of crapflood added to the crapflood. It's crapflood squared, and nobody's really asking for the original crapflood to begin with.
Maybe this is my old man yells at clouds moment, but I'm seriously feeling like screaming, "WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?" at half the stories I read on tech sites now. It's like we're rushing headlong towards a future where we have no grip at all or the reality we're living in, and not only are we not trying to find a grip, we're trying to grease up the walls so no one else can get a grip either.
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