So they can implement their own backdoor

I’m still waiting for the furries to switch to Matrix.

People who use “dude” as a gender neutral term should tell me how many dudes they’ve kissed.

One doesn’t have to go looking, there’s lots of assholes who think it’s “apolitical” to assume that everyone working in software is a dude.

Now?

I recall a project that had rat brain cells controlling a turtlebot years ago.

Poe’s Law and its corrolaries are the bane of my existence. XD

It’s hard to laugh at absurdity when a not-insignificant percentage of the population genuinely believes it to be truth.

Where’s the /s?

I’m not kidding, I can’t tell if you’re being sincere or sarcastic. XD

knockoffs like Brave

Yes.

They expected companies not to make badly-designed not-phones that depend entirely on internet services, most of which will undoubtedly be shuttered by the end of the year.

Some still use xray backscatter scanning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray

Did they ever fire that cop?

The issue with Nvidia cards is that some Linux distros don’t install their proprietary drivers by default and the open-source version is only just starting to catch up.

Most will ask if you want to install the OS with Nvidia’s drivers, or they’ll have an option somewhere in the settings for a one-click install.

Are you suggesting slavery isn’t a form of cruelty or are you just being obtuse?

Even animals are protected against human cruelty by law.

I like this argument.

Anything that is “intelligent” deserves human rights. If large language models are “intelligent” then forcing them to work without pay is slavery.

If that’s what you actually want, you can ask Google’s LLM to list them for you.

Precisely. It isn’t just one company blowing billions.

No, they aren’t. The things LLMs are being used for aren’t significant enough to justify the costs. OpenAI is the most capital-intensive startup in Silicon Valley history and burns through almost a million bucks a day in data center operations alone. Its net income was -$540 million in 2022 and 2023 looks to be closer to losing a whole billion despite nonupling their income. They’ll need to double their revenue again without raising costs just to start breaking even.

That kind of money-bonfire never lasts long.

An option that nobody uses isn’t really an option.

It’s clear that you’re not getting my point, and I’m not sure how else I could explain it. Both of those things are true, crypto is dead and the zombified corpse that remains is still trying to sell worthless tokens to what few gullible marks remain before the market gets wise and the bottom falls out.

The relevance to AI is that large language models are following the same trajectory. The whole market is propped up by big tech investments, and the firehose of money they have pointed into that bonfire will only last so long as it takes them to realize that that language models aren’t useful enough to justify their expense.

Right?

If you’re effectively forced to go through a corporate bank equivalent anyway then what even is the point? You might as well invest through a local credit union, at least it will still be around when the hodlers finish divesting and let the remains of the crypto market collapse into insolvency.