There are billions being sunk into AI. How much health care could that buy? Your logic only makes sense if AI is free. It’s not.

Retaining data can mean violating legal obligations. Hidden backups can be a lawyers playground.

Not with general purpose LLMs. They start off ok, but become much more interested in continuing the text they’ve already translated, rather than looking back to what it is they’re meant to translate. So they drift off course as the translation gets longer.

That’s more like our Conservative party doing it (which they are), but Labour is meant to be a worker’s party.

Same thing in the UK. Just replace Democrats with Labour and MAGA with Reform.

It’ll be over in 4 days years

I think he means the equivalent of car play.

Helium does a pretty good job of that too.

It’ll be in shadow at midnight, yes, but not necessarily at any other time. Geostationary orbit is at about 7x the radius of the earth.

As such, the period when in will actually be in shadow is only a short period directly behind the planet.

Super heat what in that space? The point is there’s nothing to transfer heat to. All you can do is radiate infra-red light.

It would be 20kW for each rack or two. The types of data centre deal they talk about these days are measured in GW of compute. That’s 50,000x just for 1GW.

One that was 86.

“Oh fuck. They’re here. I’ll be off now”

A Total Perspective Vortex if you will. Only a true narcissist survives.

Just compare it to his videos from 10 years ago.

3 minutes and interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OSrvzNW9FE

There’s no honour amongst them.

Cloud based services in general.

Bubbles don’t burst for rational reasons. They burst because the lie can’t be held together any more.

I’m 90% certain that none of the resources being “bought” by AI actually have been sold, or created yet.

Indeed. The prices skyrocketed because vendors realised they couldn’t get replacement supply in the future. What existed today was all they were going to get.

I’m expecting a glut of supply once those contracts fall through.

Speaking of the auto industry: Is AI a mirage, like the dreams of a working rotary engine?

It is, but I think it’s a different type of mirage. The rotary engine does work, but it brings with it significant downsides. Getting the positives without the negatives is the mirage being chased.

AI appears to do one thing, but actually does another. People see it “creating” new things, but it’s more like it shreds work up and then glues the pieces together making sure it looks consistent. Train it on one work and it can reproduce that work. Train it on two and it will mash the two. Train it on a billion and it will mash the billion. Nothing creative,. No extrapolation. Just interpolation.

People want the AI promise regardless of the downsides. It just doesn’t exist.

Convenience as in “it’s what I’ve always used and I understand it” or are you noticing some awkward aspects?

Great story.

It’s the sort of thing that I would hope could become community maintained once the authors have made some money off it.