Not sure what they need to do more of. Another poster mentioned their datacenter CPU, and there’s plans for a desktop chip. It’s not obvious yet that traditional Windows PC customers are going to accept ARM, though I hope they do.

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Power usage is what’s sucking the cash. What else could it be? Not all of these companies are building out lots of datacenters the way OpenAI is. They built what they have, and are now trying to make money on it.

The companies that are charging for AI are charging about as much as buyers are willing to pay, but it’s orders of magnitude too small to cover their costs. The big cost is power usage.

Just one more reaction, bro, I promise, I’m not just making up new organic compounds for fun.

You know that technology doesn’t actually get better by default, right? It reaches plateaus. Some things are just dead ends.

Have you bought any bubble memory recently?

Except none of these companies are making money. Like almost literally none. We’re about three years into the LLM craze, and nobody has figured out how to turn a profit. Hell, forget profit, not bleeding through prodigious piles of cash would be a big deal.

What AI companies are profitable? Besides the one selling shovels in a gold rush.

Half Life 3. Someone had to say it.

Doom has not been ported to the Cray 1. It has the specs to do it on paper, but there are memory addressing issues that make it difficult.

They already have ARM development spun up.

Really? Companies are going to keep building datacenters that need entire nuclear reactors to themselves without any of that converting into revenue? This is going to keep going forever in your mind?

You don’t remember buying an Xbox 260 in 2805?

From now on, you will only be pregnant.

Also, the ad signs will alternate between adult toy stores and anti-abortion messages every few hundred feet.

In Wisconsin, Walker straight up put a campaign slogan (“Open for business”) on those signs. Fortunately, those got taken down for a simple “Tony Evers, Governor”.

IMO, it’s not great regardless of which direction it’s going. Fuck ML’ers, but it isn’t really necessary to create one-way engagement with them.

In the United States, this has a racial component. If we depend on cops to overlook certain things, then they will be more likely to overlook it for white people than black people. Enlightened Centrists will say “whelp, they technically broke the law” without any further insight.

So your users can go on their instance, I guess? That’s not a great reason. Cut them off or don’t.

If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would “financially ruin” the entire AI industry.

Journalists need to stop this shit. Yes, it would financially ruin them. It’d ruin them the same way drug dealers would be financially ruined if you confiscated their drugs.

Anyplace wired with plain old telephone lines could do fax. Though I believe the POTS->cable company converters won’t work with fax.

Printers that include a built-in scanner often include fax because it’s easy. They just need to add a modem and some software, and the modem hardware is dirt cheap.

Honestly, no. US infrastructure for this stuff is scaffolding, at best.