We could build hundreds of thousands of homes for families that need them, but it goes to stealing water, power, and land instead.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Art, too, of course, none of it actually works without that.
Fuck those homeless/hungry/sick people I guess.
Oh you own all silicone production for a couple years?
Yeah you ain't got shit kid. I own the entire output of humanity from 2035 to infinity and beyond. I declared it was all for me, and a couple really really big wigs agree with me. So that means it is very real, and very legal and very not a monopoly.
So, you wanna rent everything you used to own from me? to bad, you cant afford it. See you in my prison slave camps later sucker.
There are reports going around that an AR-15 is now cheaper than current RAM sticks. We could sell our RAM sticks and pay Sam Altman a visit.
This is absolutely insane to me. AI is destroying society.
Now is the time to stand by your principles. And if you don't have principles, maybe raise some. Become anti-consumption and remove yourself from capitalism, as much as possible. Hate those people. You should hate them as much as possible.
It sucks too, because the power for pattern recognition and identification behind Machine Learning is incredible, and if we were being more responsible with it, we could be using it only for truly valuable purposes like early cancer detection, assistant tools, proofreading etc, instead of training it to plagiarise other people's work and kill people somewhere.
100% agree. What alpha fold did, which had to do with protein folding, was awesome. But ya, then comes capitalism and the idiocy and comfort-seeking of society and ruins everything for everyone.
110 billion more pumped into a company with no sustainable business model in sight 🫧

Nope, it's a 110 billion IOU...there is no money being passed around. That's why when this pops. It's gonna be grizzly.
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And also all the military contracts that Anthropic will no longer take
If a RAM stick or my GPU fails in my computer, I’m ruined financially.
I had 32GB ranked ram and one stick failed. I now have 16GB now.
It's easy. You buy a set of ram on Amazon and put your old sticks in the box when you return it.
I upgraded half the parts in my computer this way over a year ago. We really need to promote stealing from large corporations. It's silly how many people are still following the rules of society when they aren't.
Until they decide to sell it again and the next customer gets what you returned instead of what they ordered
Over a year later. Falls under petty theft which has a statute of limitations of a year in my state. I'm not losing sleep over it.
And this is all theoretical for internet points. I'd never actually do something like that. Never never never. Not even once.
I also don't weight every fruit and vegetable at self checkout as a potato (lowest cost per weight item usually). I'd never ever do that.
I like you. You have a great mind.

Fuck 110 billion.... These people have way too much money to burn. Literally throwing money away for some shit tech that so far hasn't produced any returns and probably never will.
Yeah seriously, $Billions and $Trillions are too common in the media to have the impact they should have.
This one headline is discussing an investment of $110,000 MILLION Dollars. That's enough to let an entire football stadium (either US version or everybody else version) of people retire tomorrow.
40 years of 100,000 people working $15 an hour would just barely make that much. Before taxes. And unpaid sick time. Of course. Sorry to be US-centric but we seem to be leading the way in this whole Road To Dystopia thing.
Sam Altman is a money launderer. he's just holding the money so everyone else can say they don't have money
This confirms me that anyone with a cute anime avatar is a huge weirdo. It doesn't even look like him.
We are grateful for the support from our partners and have a lot of work to do to bring you the tools you deserve.
What about the ram and storage I deserve?
They’ll have you subscribe to their RAM and storage.
Exactly. Nobody asked for AI.
What we ask for is cheap storage and RAM.
They are taking away something we want, and replacing it with something we don't want.
of course his PROFILE picture is ai GENERATED. i cringe at that cartoonish look that my older bro does with pictures.
I use my computer so seldomly that I honestly don't care. When it dies I won't be replacing it at all. The Internet quit being fun and interesting a decade ago and my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music and only brings news that spoils my mood. I genuinely miss the all analog life. Thanks for reminding me. I'm going to go say hi to a stringed instrument now.
my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music
I felt this on a personal and professional level
the tools you deserve
What did we do wrong to deserve this?
The tools we deserve/need are cheap. A few pieces of wood and an angled blade.
Even micro SD cards have got crazy expensive.
I think some CEOs are starting to slowly realise how unpopular AI is with the public. But at this point their sink costs are astronomical.
It'll be gone in 3 months and they'll be asking big daddy gubbment for a handout
I'm an idiot, that goes without saying, but I think that if anything needs another round of investment AND that extra investment is 110 billion of any decently used currency then maybe, just maybe, something is fundamentally wrong with the product in the first place.
However, like I said, I'm an idiot so what do I know.
The merry go round of fake capital continues.
I profoundly hate this timeline
So this should satisfy Sam Altman's hunger for a week?
So anyway, I pumped one of the biggest bubbles in history again
Nvidia buying more of their own GPUs. Definitely not a bubble, just kind of circle shaped
Last October I built a new PC for the first time in a solid decade. My aging Intel 6700k has served me well. I had no idea of the missile barrage that I dodged by upgrading when I did.
NVidia, AWS, and SoftBank are all involved in data center construction. Wonder how much of the $110B are essentially 'store credits' that just cycle back to them?
I just upgraded my laptop's ram so I hope that is the last I'll need for a few years.
A lot of people won't have a computer/phone to make use of AI because of this 🤣
That's the goal, once you can't outright afford the hardware what do you think happens?
Subscriptions of course, much like the phone "contracts" of today, now you can rent a PC, or better yet subscribe to a cloud instance of a PC.
You'd still need to subscribe to the LLM of course, but that'd be easier if it was bundled with your cloud computer subscription.
Then comes the software bundles, because they can't just have you installing whatever you want on their cloud machines, that's leaving money on the table.
Eventually with the next generation, or the one after that it will become normalised, just another thing you can't own because fuck you, that's why.
FML: i scroll down maybe 10 posts and this : https://programming.dev/post/46457240
RAM, like fines for breaking the law, is only for the rich elites.
I don't understand, ChatGPT isn't even a well performing AI. It's a household name, sure, but it's quality sucks.