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- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 2 weeks ago:
The assumption is that they’ll develop some kind of moat, but there are plenty of other AI models on offer or in development. It would also be useless capturing a market when the companies that would be their customers realize they’re not making money on the AI themselves.
- Comment on Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit 2 weeks ago:
With OpenAI being at the center of the AI hype, I would’ve thought they’d be raking in the dough instead of losing $5 billion. So it’s really just Nvidia making money on this bullshit, huh? It’ll hurt when the hype dies down and Nvidia drops from the second top spot on the S&P 500. We’re all going to feel that one.
- Comment on China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending 2 weeks ago:
If it works like subsidies over here, companies will just jack up prices to eat up the full subsidy.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
I dunno about that. Based on this US data, its use seems to be expanding, even more so than renewables: www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
This graph in particular shows this: Image
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 2 weeks ago:
This must be that innovation which is making the world a better place that these tech parasites keep gushing about.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
There’s a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the benefit of making them fire you over simply quitting?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t facebook fake numbers before for video views which caused e.g. collegehumor to fold because they thought they could rely on facebook for views?
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 2 months ago:
Something to keep in mind when people are suggesting AI be used to replace teachers.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 months ago:
This is why it’s silly hearing billionaires, who do the most damage to our planet, telling us how urgently we need to “get off this rock” which has supported life for millions of years in favor of some dead planet. It’s really just an extension of capitalism that demands infinite space to exploit, instead of being content with sustainability.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 2 months ago:
Now do israel.
- Comment on Veggie 2 months ago:
Pot of greed’s coomer cousin.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 3 months ago:
How do you short a privately-held company?
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 3 months ago:
Hey I know that guy, he streams on twitch!
- Comment on Clipped it blud 3 months ago:
MODS!!!
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 3 months ago:
Now imagine if they had to pay for the content they’re training the models off of.
- Comment on Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium 3 months ago:
Exciting to see all sorts of batteries for different applications. Is lithium-ion still standard for home power backup? I’ve heard characteristics of the new sodium-ion batteries being ideal for that use case.
- Comment on Thank you! 4 months ago:
You espress it?
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 4 months ago:
The tech-savvy reputation comes from the “digital native” narrative i.e. because they grew up with computers they must know computers, which is a silly fallacy because how one interacts with technology makes all the difference. It’s the same reason why everyone who grew up with electricity isn’t necessarily an electrician.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 4 months ago:
That explains your optimism. Code generation is at a stage where it slaps together Stack Overflow answers and code ripped off from GitHub for you. While that is quite effective to get at least a crappy programmer to cobble together something that barely works, it is a far cry from having just anyone put out an idea in plain language and getting back code that just does it. A programmer is still needed in the loop.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain to you that AI development over the decades has often reached plateaus where the approach needed to be significantly changed in order for progress to be made, but it could certainly be the case where LLMs (at least as they are developed now) aren’t enough to accomplish what you describe.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 4 months ago:
I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn’t make them crazy.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 4 months ago:
I did, and still didn’t see the crazy. In fact, all it did was make me wonder why an instance with such little activity gets talked about so much.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 4 months ago:
Do you have any examples of this? Since world is defederated from that instance, I only end up visiting it when people like you come in and talk about how absolutely crazy it is over there, so occasionally I’ll take a curious peek. This time I see… a post about Indigenous rights, a post criticizing capitalism, a post dunking on musk, a post about FOSS… when do I start seeing the crazy?
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 4 months ago:
There are essentially infinite choices for entertainment these days. Hypothetically, even if they somehow stopped 100% of piracy, I still wouldn’t pay for their overpriced slop.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 4 months ago:
This will be used as an excuse to try to drive down wages while demanding more responsibilities from developers, even though this is absolute bullshit. However, if they actually follow through with their delusions and push to build platforms on AI-generated trash code, then soon after they’ll have to hire people to fix such messes.
- Comment on The Tme of the Harvest 4 months ago:
I don’t think this plan works anymore with the prices the way they are now.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 4 months ago:
Ah, thanks for the clarification on the details. Either way it boggles my mind that they didn’t have checks in place.
- Comment on BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS) 4 months ago:
If I were a BMW customer, I’d be suspending my purchase of their rip-off vehicles.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing 4 months ago:
They tried to walk it back by claiming “we’d only be doing this to reduce prices” which clearly shows they want to do it but are trying to introduce it in a way to minimize outcry if they can.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 4 months ago:
Nothing shady about that commentary after seeing how they screwed up. I couldn’t believe how amateur hour the cause of the crash was (the program not validating definition file contents, which spectacularly failed when fed a file consisting only of zeroes). They should rename themselves to ClownTrike.
