I'm not a ludite, I run my own llms and think "AI" is a massive step up in productivity in science and automation.
I think OAI and the likes are a massive grift. If anything, DeepSeek showed everyone that the path forward to mass adoption is open source and a REAL marketplace of ideas. The grift is convincing illiterate idiots that their money is well invested in bringing a closed source shit product to the masses. Outside of novelty, a 1B model running locally is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of the uses people give AI, write or re-write text.
I'm appalled our retirement money is in the hands of these people. Then I stop, look around and see world leaders (and first ladies) launching memecois and rug pulling to the tune of billions and realise it's just another step towards idiocracy.
It's not without irony that the bougie class that ridiculed blue collar workers once the industry offshored is now crying Wolf when their jobs are offshored.
*Why don't you learn programming now that your factory closed. Oh wait....
Take a page from the factory workers you look down upon and unionise, as in, proper multi sector union. Make investing and profiting from your country predicated on giving workers a fair share. When your garbage ppl go on strike, you strike too. When the auto plant closes you strike too. When nurses ask for better conditions for their patients, you strike too.
Guys like Bannon or Elmo are the visible faces of a much broader movement that has been diverting funds towards the European far right. We're seeing a reverse paperclip op. There isn't a single far right European party with electoral expression that wasn't involved in some scandal about funding of dubious origins (in countries where there is oversight).
This is an Afd talking point bit by bit and is part of a concerted effort from the anglophone fascist world to get that nice Swiss lady as a Kanzlerin. There's so much money being pumped into EU far right is not even funny.
95% failure to convict indicates the defendants may have shown rehabilitation and regret so the judge applied jurisprudence. I know this may be a foreign concept to a US american but in the civilised world, prison is a rehabilitation solution, not a "for profit" slavery distributor to help GAP and McDonald's get free labour.
Tell me, in the history of the human race, when has someone with the biggest stick not use it when its vassals step out of line. People think the US is different than Russia. It isn't, it just has better PR.
If Europe re-arms, why the fuck would it need the US and why the fuck would it still be a slave to the dollar when IT could have the world reserve currency? The entire basis of transatlanticism is that the yanks hold the sticks so none of the leaders in Europe gets funny ideas like in the early 20th century.
How world leaders can be so mundane and pathetic as a rando at the local bodega is one of history's greatest mysteries. What happened to all of the competent people that we're left with absolute scrotum skin flakes of politicians.
The level of user sophistication required to use modern "Ai" in a productive useful way puts it squarely beyond the reach of the masses. Alphafold is fucking awesome, chatGPT O3 is nothing but a gimmick.
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
I mentioned Mexico and Canada because, when interacting with US americans online, the corolary is the knowledge of geography is inversely proportional to the distance to the borders of the U S of A. I was trying not to be ableist.
Don't cite the old spells to me witch, I was there when they were written.
The dot com bubble was the same exact BS, and elmo was there already prepared to grift to the wazoo. The whole AI thing is a massive grift with no mass market use. B2B? Maybe Science? Definitely but mass market is NOT the use case.
Not just Trump's. The whole Ua invasion proxy war was a way to stop the energy transition and delay our industrial and AI advancements. It also has the advantage of making the shit fracking products actually profitable and avoid the colapse of the economy under the pressure of so much investment being written off. Trump is no different from Biden as Europe is concerned , he just happens to be dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud.
Gen Z/Alpha are the new boomers. I teach hundreds of so called intellectual cream of the crop per year. It was bad before the pandemic, it's seriously concerning now. The youth has largely divorced from reasoning and are used to reason in simple inputs to simple output. I am genuinely scared.
This is why the US has gone to so much trouble to discredit the French in popular culture as "cowardly surrender monkeys", because they are the only western people that has the balls to put necks in guillotines. Allez les gars!
Meanwhile the truly exceptional US Americans have been collecting weapons for decades, that are used only to murder minorities and children in school, when some orangegutang hijacks the government they send thoughts and prayers or make posts on twitter... The well armed militia stays silent.
I learned this is the same kind of dumbed down New Vegas experience as Outer worlds was. Ok writing but nothing groundbreaking, streamlined RPG elements and serviceable combat. It was quite useful because I was waiting specifically for Avowed but given how sub par it is, I'm investing my time and money in KCD2.
I'm not a ludite, I run my own llms and think "AI" is a massive step up in productivity in science and automation.
I think OAI and the likes are a massive grift. If anything, DeepSeek showed everyone that the path forward to mass adoption is open source and a REAL marketplace of ideas. The grift is convincing illiterate idiots that their money is well invested in bringing a closed source shit product to the masses. Outside of novelty, a 1B model running locally is more than enough for the overwhelming majority of the uses people give AI, write or re-write text.
I'm appalled our retirement money is in the hands of these people. Then I stop, look around and see world leaders (and first ladies) launching memecois and rug pulling to the tune of billions and realise it's just another step towards idiocracy.
Edit: spelling