OpenAI just shut down its Sora video generator. It seems we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the GenAI bubble.

Hyperscalers like OpenAI never had realistic business models, but the Iran war and soaring energy costs have made these models even less viable.

If OpenAI is forced to evaluate the profitability of its services, it will likely keep military and B2B services, as well as cheaper, less computationally demanding text generators.

OpenAI has an added problem: compared to Anthropic's Claude, ChatGPT is now like Altavista's search engine compared to Google's in 1998. This realization is slowly seeping into the mainstream.

Due to its investments in data centers and contracts with computer hardware manufacturers, OpenAI has single-handedly drained the personal computer market of GPUs, SSDs, RAM, and hard drives. Exploding prices mean that local AI systems (local LLMs and image generators) are no longer viable alternatives for most people. This creates a bottleneck for AI image generation, from Sora to other AI image generator services.

The end of Sora could mean that OpenAI is in trouble and that the long-predicted AI industry crash similar to the 2000 dot-com crash is near.

#OpenAI #AI #sora #aibubble

Les chatbots IA sur les sites n'apportent rien. Les utilisateurices ne comprennent pas à quoi ils servent, ne remarquent souvent pas leur présence, et ne les utilisent pas, faute de savoir à quoi ils servent.

Ce qu'apporte les chatbots est peu clair/Ils ne résolvent que rarement des problèmes concrets que le reste du site n'avait pas *déjà* réglé. (article en anglais) https://www.nngroup.com/articles/site-ai-chatbot/

RE: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/116286455854932217

since Trump has bankrupted the USA, the new moderate position should be to seize all the assets of the billionaires and millionaires who scammed the country into bankruptcy, no?

Steve Wozniak: Current AI Tools Are Unimpressive, Largely Disappointing
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/163952/steve-wozniak-current-ai-tools-are-unimpressive-largely-disappointing

Yeah, Steve, tell us something we don't already know...

Timely

#USPol #TSA #ICE #AirTravel #News

Oil “demand destruction”

🚶‍♀️walk to work if you can
🚲 cycle to work if you can
🚋 use public transport more
🚗 drive less
✈️ fly less
👩🏻‍💻 meet online more
🏡 work from home more

Also this will radically reduce emissions from transportation.

This is a win-win

Google's profound contempt for journalists is on display as it rewrites publications' headlines in search results, sometimes altering the meaning and intent of the original. https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

The company calls it an "experiment" -- as if that makes it OK.