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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116127740444038853
The unadmitted reason this is happening (and the AI bubble besides): Moore's Law *has ended*. The only way for hardware sales to go in future is *down* because your next PC or Mac will work just fine until it breaks or dies of old age. So by ramping prices artificially via this RAM/SSD futures bullshit, they're keeping profits high for as long as possible.
RE: https://mastodon.nl/@bert_hubert/116000388750823868
A reasonable summary of the field (a technologist's eye view). Note that the insane economic bubble has very little to do with the underlying technologies. LLMs are impressive but not very useful; other areas of AI/ML that don't get the gosh-wow coverage—pattern reconizers—are potentially revolutionary for a variety of fields.
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Because a LOT of people are missing the point:
No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".
But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.
Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.
So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.
🐇 Huh that does sound very useful, maybe I should look into this Home Assistant thing
🦝 No. This was one good post in an absolute farce of a thread. I saved some energy but I had to scoop out part of my brain to do so. My lightbulbs cost thirty dollars and my light switches need new batteries. To make them work I have to program a computer that forgets how I programmed it and tries to program itself instead. The basement hall light turns on and shines on the projector screen every time a cat comes down the stairs. I have to turn my reading light on with my phone. I'm doomed. My house is on the computer and it's a fucking ZOO in here. It's donkeys slobbering on keyboards. I have dimmer switches called bedroom-overhead-final-v2-absolutefinal-colourversion-usethisone. Leave it. Stay away. It's too late for me, but you don't have to do this.
In automation theory, a "centaur" is a person, assisted by a machine. A "reverse centaur" is a person conscripted to *assist a machine*. If you're a software engineer who uses AI to write routine code that you have the time and experience to validate, deploying your Fingerspitzengefühl and process knowledge to ensure that it's fit for purpose, it's easy to see why you might find using AI (when you choose to, in ways you choose to, at a pace you choose to go at) to be useful.
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So - as Signal's Meredith Whittaker and Udbhav Tiwari put it in their incredible 39C3 talk last week in Hamburg - Microsoft is about to abolish the very *idea* of privacy for *any* data on personal and corporate computers, in order to ship AI agents that cannot *ever* work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4
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Bosses *do not know* that code is a liability, not an asset. That's why they won't shut the fuck up about the chatbots that shit out 10,000 times more code than any human programmer. They think they've found a machine that produces *assets* at 10,000 times the rate of a human programmer. They haven't. They've found a machine that produces *liability* at 10,000 times the rate of any human programmer.
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