Be better/faster at selling AI.

I genuinely think if the majority of Americans were forced to question their position as the #1 country in the world, American society would immediately implode.

I suspect that even the American people who claim they don't think America is #1 still privately, secretly, maybe even shamefully, wave the #1 flag inside their own heads.

Sooner or later the combination of shock and cognitive dissonance will drive them insane...or, more likely, to World War 3.

But... they are under trade embargoes. So, the point is the embargoes aren't going to slow down their AI scale-up plans. They burn more energy, but since energy generation doesn't seem to be a problem in China that doesn't matter. Sitting there shouting "but your solution isn't ideeeeeal!" completely misses the point.

Maybe over the last 50 years instead of handing out massive dividends to investors and bonuses to board members they should have been ploughing money into maintaining and expanding their crumbling infrastructure.

Oh well, never mind, at least you all get to pay more for less energy and the investors continue to laugh away atop their piles of cash generated by a privately-owned public utility that essentially nobody can opt-out of paying.

Woah, did an ntsync developer sleep with your wife or something?

While it's certainly not going to double framerates in all games it's definitely not snakeoil. Some games show no improvement vs wineserver and fsync, others show fairly massive improvement; it depends on how many syscalls the game makes and the specific hardware it's running on.

PC gamers have always been excited by free performance boosts and why wouldn't they? Some of them need to rein in their expectations, sure, but that's no reason to piss on the entire project.

Lol. The market won't save you. Nobody will move for better customer service if the total price is higher. And come on, how often do you call a customer service line about jeans? It's telcos, energy, insurance, etc... they're the ones that'll use this, and once they're all using it, it absolutely won't matter that customer satisfaction drops off a cliff as soon as the reason for the call falls outside the normal parameters.

Sam Altman has the world's most expensive barrel of snake-oil and he's determined to sell all of it. ChatGPT and other LLMs like it have some very, very niche cases where they can effectively replace human workers. Remote customer service where the role is very simple and well-defined, employees essentially act programmatically following a rigid procedure, using "business friendly" language... that's obviously the one that maps most closely to an LLM's core competency.

I'm absolutely sure there have been "expert systems" for medical diagnostics for decades; I remember reading about them in school in the 1990s and I think they've been around a lot longer than that. They weren't AI-based, they were just programs where you answered a bunch of questions about the patient, symptoms, test results etc. and it came up with the most likely diagnoses.

Throwing ChatGPT into the medical diagnostics realm where it absolutely will hallucinate nonsensical bullshit seems utterly insane. I wouldn't trust ChatGPT to write a moderately complex Python script, why the fuck would I trust it to correctly diagnose an illness? We're absolutely nowhere near the point where AI should be trusted to do that. Might as well ask a parrot.

Not even going to touch on the costs, both environmental and financial. LLMs are nice toys, good for when you cba Googling something. That's about it.

I imagine it's very easy to make the AI just say "Request denied. Thanks for your call.", in which case he's kinda right; you call once, the thing just happens, it's done.

Genuine question: how do they know it's a selfie of you?

Man, there sure are a lot of...

1. Bootlicking corporatists.
2. Armchair lawyers.
3. People who firmly and without any justification or proof argue that the world works they way they think it should work.

...posting today.

Or, y'know... just diversify your renewables. Solar, wind, hydro, tidal, etc.

In the UK, for example, the problem in the UK isn't renewable generation - we've got loads of it, in Scotland we now generate more from renewables than we actually use - but deficits in the national grid infrastructure mean that transporting energy to where it's actually needed is often impossible, so the efficiencies aren't fully realised.

There have been calls to split the grid into smaller markets so energy must be sold closer to where it's generated, but that's a bitter political fight as in that scenario some parts of the UK will pay higher (perhaps much higher) bills than others, depending on whether their supply must be augmented with natural gas-generated power.

Speaking from the UK, In my opinion we don't need more nuclear. I'm not opposed to maintaining existing nuclear facilities but we simply do not need any more. Increase grid transport capacity, scale up the renewables, invest in more energy storage technologies and we're done. Yes, it'll be very expensive, but pretty much everyone agrees that the grid upgrades are absolutely required and nuclear plants are still ludicrously expensive to construct, maintain and run and almost always have massive budget overruns and construction delays.

Elsewhere in Europe the picture can be quite different, obviously.

Most of the people at my workplace who rave about CoPilot have the same general characteristics:

• They're slow readers, so they get CoPilot to summarize stuff for them.
• They cannot spell, so they get CoPilot to write their emails for them.
• They're lazy, so they get CoPilot to write policies, reports, etc. for them.
• They don't know how to use traditional search engines effectively, so they get CoPilot to look stuff up for them.

That's its value. It makes largely unproductive people appear productive. They can open CoPilot and say "write me a data protection policy for a IT system in a company under uk law" and hand the output to their boss without even looking at it.

To be fair, it can be a good starting point for a task like this. It definitely shouldn't be the only step in the process, but for a lot of people it is.

Translation: "Someone changed the password. It's now 1234567. That's a whole 7 extra bits of complexity! (except not really)"

1. Nintendo and Apple are in the same market - handheld gaming. I'm willing to bet that Apple sell more games through the App Store than Nintendo sells globally each year. The difference is Apple is diversified and Nintendo isn't.

2. What exactly does Trump have to do with anything?

What's it actually like to have brain damage? I'm genuinely curious.