jaylittle

More than likely none of these AI companies will exist 12 months from now. Their carcasses will be devoured by entities with enough money to buy up the scraps after the bubble pops and the market implodes.

Neither SpaceX, OpenAI or Anthropic have a future. What's a shame is that had Elon not merged SpaceX with xAI it might've actually had a future - but he had to go and ruin it.

What an idiot.

Yep. But in truth the alternative cannaboids are interesting on their own. That having been said I don’t live in a legal state but… it really doesn’t much matter anymore.

At least somebody else here has a clue, thanks for representing!

Who the fuck cares? Exchange is dead. Office 365 is where its at. Move on Thunderbird team.

MariaDB called and said, "I'm still here" ;)

Couldn't agree more.

Thankfully I believe this is largely just overblown hype. Silicon Valley has gotten way too high on it's own supply of bullshit and the AI craze is that being taken to the next level of insanity. Regardless, the tech industry is amoral at best. We are so obsessed with "can we" (or rather "can we convince a VC that we could") that we never take the time to stop to consider "should we".

Ultimately, watching tech find new and innovative ways to fool and to fleece people has, at times, almost made me feel shame that I've been part of this industry for almost 25 years now.

We are addicted to the idea of disruption and the monetary rewards that come with it. Generally we don't care if we sink the rest of the world in the process either.

Damn shame, that.

LOL

You speak as if my internet shit talking will make an iota of difference.

Regardless of what I want, the future is what it is.

Deal with it.

It's really depressing to see that big tech is essentially universally pushing Snake Oil. AI is a lie. LLMs are a legit tech that have some purpose, but LLMs will never evolve into anything remotely resembling the actual definition of AI.

They are flowery language generators and they will never be able to reason, understand, debate and criticize. They know nothing and therefore embody nothing. No matter how much computer power you waste on them the end result will always be bullshit. Nothing more. Nothing less.

To Big Tech I say: Prove me wrong.

This bill does nothing to address the problem of nation state propaganda spreading via social media. It just allows American politicians to claim a fake national security victory over a Chinese owned company while ignoring the fact that American owned social media companies are a steaming cesspool full of such content.

Dont get me wrong, I think TikTok is terrible. I won't use it. Ever. But that still doesn't mean it should be banned. Unless you want to ban all social media apps all at once. Probably still not something I would support, but I could definitely see proponents being able to form much more compelling arguments in favor of such an action.

As it stands right now, this makes zero logical sense.

Computer Fun was the first progamming book I ever got. It made me into a coder. I got it when I was six at the same time my father and uncle gave me and my siblings my Uncle's old Apple II for Christmas.

I still got a physical copy of it on my home office shelf. Not the same one I had as a kid mind you, because that one took a serious beating over the years. I looked for that book for years with only the memory of the general illustration style to guide me. One day about a decade ago I stumbled on it.

Love that these are freely available online as PDFs. That's freaking awesome!

Isn't running commands as admin, in the same terminal window, already possible via the use of runas.exe? Granted I haven't daily driven Windows in years but IIRC that does the job albeit with clunkier syntax.