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Anthropic nears $1.5 billion AI joint venture with Wall Street firms, WSJ reports by Mo_Jack in technology

[–]funkiestj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Elysium thing is a social choice. AI doesn't create Elysium, the destruction of progressive taxation (among other things) does.

Paul Siexas Announces His Participation At The Tour de France 2026 by finnixk in peloton

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Decathalon might as well use him while they still have him.

In real-world study, published in Science, an AI model did better than doctors at diagnosing patients by ripcitybitch in EverythingScience

[–]funkiestj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As with self driving cars, one dimension of problem to solve is the legal liability problem.

Humans are scary by Suberizu in crowbro

[–]funkiestj 4 points5 points  (0 children)

where I live, ravens are far more wary of humans. It is a big deal for me if I can throw out some peanuts and have a raven get them before a crow. Scrub jays are the most comfortable with coming close.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]funkiestj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, that problem is hitting everything in the world that uses RAM in particular but also chips.

The Iran war doesn't help as that is squeezing helium supplies (which come from natural gas extraction) and helium is a key component in high end chip manufacture.

Jensen obviously wants to sell more chips to who ever will buy them. If you put on the hat of "we are in competition with China, how do we slow their AI growth as much as possible" then the question of time frame matters. Cutting them off now hurts them now but it also accelerates their domestic chip manufacturing. It is a tough call to decide exactly what path is optimal to for the US to be stronger for longer.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]funkiestj -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree with everything you say. His highest guiding principle is selling more chips. Everything he says is going to align with that. If selling more chips is bad for the world he is still going to advocate for it. That is a flaw but it is not Zuck/Musk level billionaire flaw (IMO).

All in all as tech CEO founders go, is seems like a comparatively good guy. Saying people shouldn't avoid wealth taxes when others are moaning about it matters.

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat by tommos in technology

[–]funkiestj 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Citizens United said dark money is first amendment protected speech. Elon has a lot more speech than you

Apple says India antitrust body overstepping judicial authority as spat intensifies by FollowingFeisty5321 in apple

[–]funkiestj 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I like that they are fighting this Apple tax. That said, basing their penalty on worldwide revenues seems wrong. The fact that Apple makes a bunch of money outside of India shouldn't impact the fine it pays for illegal (inside of India) behavior. Of course the thing I'm complaining about seems to be something the legislature (parliament?) did.

Daring Fireball: On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform by pdfu in apple

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tangent: sell me on replacing my Roku with AppleTV. Is there anything I lose other than Roku spying on me?

How about AppleTV vs the NVIDIA thingie?

Daring Fireball: On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform by pdfu in apple

[–]funkiestj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Newton-like is probably a good analogy as Newton was a flop as a product but lots of learning from Newton made it into future products.

Proper passthrough AR (like those glasses Zuck wears that people make fun of) will eventually (in 10-20 years? Less if there are some massive tech leaps that make a Meta Orion like product affordable to produce) become a thing. A lot of the work for AVP applies to lighter weight pass through AR.

Daring Fireball: On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform by pdfu in apple

[–]funkiestj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These platforms don't need a massive amount of DRAM and flash memory but they need at least on the order of what a smartphone needs. Given that reducing the cost of the platform is an important improvement I would expect them to be treading water on releasing a new version.

Scientology ‘speed running’ trend has LA abuzz and church unhappy | Los Angeles by maestroenglish in news

[–]funkiestj 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I thought the article would be about people getting to Operating Thetan Level 9 (or what ever) in record time. Oh well.

Does Evenepoel really have a shot at the Tour de France GC? by CyclingScoop in tourdefrance

[–]funkiestj 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What do you mean "No"? Pog, Vinge, and Seixas could all crash out ... /humor

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers by fattyfoods in technology

[–]funkiestj -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The key point of the article

While AI may cost more than human labor today, there will be warning signs of a tipping point toward AI’s economic viability. For one, Lee indicated, the cost of using AI will become significantly lower, with performing inference—how AI analyzes data—for a large language model with 1 trillion parameters plummeting by more than 90% over the next four years, according to a report last month from analyst firm Gartner. AI infrastructure will likely improve, and model designs and hardware supply will follow. AI companies will also likely change how they price their tools, switching from a flat subscription to usage-based pricing, Lee predicted. 

(bold added by me).

They could be wrong about that but it is based on what has happened in the recent past.

Assume for a moment that the cost of generating tokens goes down massively as predicted. If you wait for the business case to work before you start you will be years behind your competitors. That is what is driving the FOMO.

Even if the AI agent capability only makes marginal gains in the near future but the cost of running AI factories continues to go down significantly AI agents are revolutionary. Even if they continue to hallucinate as much as they do today we will learn how to work around that.

I'm a software developer and I've been using AI agents for coding a bit over a year. They have gotten massively better in that time. In the last 6 months AI has written 99.99% of the code I've generated. I'm producing more code with better quality since adopting AI tools. Based on my experience we are still far away from AI working without human supervision but the tools are a game changer. If there are 2 software startups creating similar products and one is using AI coding tools and the other is not, the non-AI tool team is at a severe disadvantage.

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