How much in additional taxes or airport fees are you willing to pay for that?

Same as anyone else, hire a lawyer and sue for unlicensed use of your likeness. Of course the AI isn't going to reproduce you exactly. You and thousands of other people get run through a blender and something that might look a bit like you gets spit out. Even if you had the money to sue, you probably wouldn't succeed anymore than you would suing a company that used a sibling's likeness even though it does look a bit like you.

Just fight fire with fire and use the AI to make someone who vaguely resembles Zuck for advertisements about incontinence. Until your problems and issues become his problems and issues he's not going to care.

RAM prices aren't coming down until the AI bubble bursts. It wouldn't matter if there were another dozen companies manufacturing RAM if the global manufacturing capacity were the same. Even if some of those companies were willing to build additional manufacturing capacity, it would take years for it to come online because erecting the facilities and installing the equipment to produce the chips is also constrained.

Fortunately, everyone seems to be waking up to the fact that AI isn't a silver bullet and realizing it won't solve all of their problems or even save them any money. Also, for anyone playing older titles such as some of nearly three decade old games listed in the summary doesn't need a new machine with more RAM. Installing Linux on older hardware that Microsoft doesn't want to support has always been an option.

YotLD is every bit the meme it's always been and even if Valve had a popular Linux gaming machine at a reasonable price, it wouldn’t move the needle in a meaningful way. Desktops are becoming increasingly irrelevant for most people and Android is the dominant mobile OS that a majority of phones around the world use. Eventually most people will run Linux on desktops, but only because they've become irrelevant for anyone but the kind of power users that want a *nix box for professional work.

Why throw good money after bad? Not every project works out and throwing ever more money into the pit hoping it will eventually pay off requires having some other successful project from which that money must come from. Most studios don't have the kind of money to do that for more than a single game or a small team and if they have to start borrowing there's a good chance that everyone will be out of the job when the game flops or underperforms anyway.

DeepSeek is designing a tensor processor. The instruction set is very simple. Mostly just lots and lots of parallelized low-precision multiply-and-accumulate.

LLMs and humans are both unreliable, but make different mistakes.

Use one to check the other.

Disclaimer: I have used Mechanical Turk many times, but not recently.

Except the summary says that earlier acquisition is more effective than learning "recently".

Most children don't learn a second language by choice, but because they are in a multilingual environment. My daughter is bilingual because from birth to age 10 she shared a bedroom with her monolingual Mandarin-speaking grandmother.

I had an RPN calculator in high school, so that made learning Japanese much easier.

When I was in the military, I was deployed to the Western Pacific. I learned Japanese and Tagalog so I could talk to girls.

Okay we get it you're an internet lawyer.

The person you responded to is talking about people who manipulate data to match their predetermined outcome. There has been a wild amount of fabrication in published papers coming to light over the past decade because funding dries up when the outcome isn't what the people controlling the funds wanted.

A CEO making that kind of money is in charge of a company with thousands or more likely tens of thousands of employees. A CEO earning $5 million only needs to replace 100 workers earning $50,000 to save the same amount of money. It only takes a company of 2,000 for those 100 employees to be the kind of 5% reduction in force headline that's been common for the past several decades.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if in some cases AI is just an excuse to dump the usual amount of corporate deadweight that accumulates over time. Management will never admit that they overhired during COVID and AI provides a convenient excuse that doesn't point the finger at anyone in any kind of legally actionable way.

Are you suggesting the aboriginal tribes would have died off by now were it not for the British dumping prisoners there?

At the end of the day you're not wrong, but you must admit the laws help. Remove the age limit for alcohol and tobacco use and you'd have more teenagers drinking and smoking. A parent can't be there at every single moment of a child's life and having guardrails in place that allow teenagers to start learning how to be adults while making it more difficult for them to do something colossally foolish is reasonable.

Look at this from the opposite direction. How much excess socializing was done in the past because people didn't have anything else or didn't own a personal time-occupying device that didn't require sharing?

All this shows is that when given the choice, people choose their own interests over shared socialization. If previous generations had phones and tablets they wouldn't have talked to their uncle about mundane shit on Thanksgiving either. I don't think people have changed all that much, we just have more options now and this is identifying our actual preferences.

Of course they will.

Clients need to do their research, choose the tool they want, and then choose the consultant to help them implement it.

That's the way it works. Microsoft isn't the right partner to help you implement a solution based on Google Gemini. Duh.