Yes, clearly an effective communicator and bright. A pity the brightness was only on the outside.

Yes, different mechanisms and different outcomes. However, that doesn’t make one better for business as you mentioned. They just act in different ways for all parties.

However, they are good for stock markets and large projects as investment vehicles, so they do hekp government, businesses and can be used to promote projects that benefit their members, eg union based ones can promote tjeir own industry.

The suoerannuation funds in australua have now grown large enough in aggregate to be market movers.

Most I’ve seen is because they don’t want to release their real financials. So it must be bad enough to spook investors even more than the delay.

Some countries, like Australia, where I live, have transitioned from defined benefits to defined contributions. Bond yields are still higher here.

Stop the avocado toast and buy bootstraps.

Americas credit is stretched. Bond yields are up. Not just in the USA, but elsewhere, which affects lending and investment, both of which ai companies need.

Ai can crash before then, if people stop investing money or loaning money. It doesn’t mean OpenAI run out of money straight away, but it means the projects they are involved in don’t happen, so the mountain of debt piles up and the sources of revenue dry up. So, it all happens faster and the smaller neo-clouds go belly up first.

Already an Aussie one just pulled its launch IPO due to lack of interest and were considering dropping their price significantly.

If the IPO prices of other companies drop significantly, it means the early investors make very little profit, for a lot of risk, so they start to look elsewhere too.

AI companies need huge amounts of investment over extended periods, so either scenario is problematic for them.

Not of they can’t buy computers any more.

I’m wondering if we’ll get a rise in old school tech due to high cost of ram, CPUs and gpus.

Windows will struggle if that’s the case.Linux will be fine.

Proof of the difficulty and value is how much they ate spending to train ai to be able to do similar, but poorly.

I don’t disagree with most of what you said. I disagree that there is private finance waiting. There may be, but that’s not certain. Rates have gone up. Even before that, these companies were finding it increasingly difficult to raise money.

You said it’s like musical chairs. It’s more like hot potato. Who’s going to be left holding the bag? If they can’t raise enough in an IPO, then private investors are left holding the bag. Whereas for alot of private investors, the IPO means they can sell off their investment. Now they might not be able to. Which makes them more cautious about investing more. Which makes raising money harder. Which makes bills hard to pay. Which pops the bubble.

Yes, that may be, although I doubt it. Even if it is, it means the ai companies are left holding the bag rather than average investors.

Its also a signal to both small and big institutional investors that hype alone is not enough. Nvidia is doing well in a good rush where they sell shovels, but this says that the data centres alone are not necessarily profitable either. Well, if the data centres aren’t profitable and the ai companies aren’t profitable and the hyperscalers are brining cash as their ai divisions aren’t profitable, at what point will anyone turn a profit?

More like sponsored content, rather than content. Or, as we usually call it, advertising.

No, a stick holding its breath.

What’s green and sticky?

What’s blue and sticky?

While I agree people should be able to picnic without alcohol, I don’t think the laws are helping to stop either drinking or public nuisance.

There are lots of oibs where you can still drink. It’s just more expensive and more commercially focused, and you can keep going past what you planned.

Council banning things on a purity basis erodes freedoms. If people become a nuisance, alcohol or not, deal with it then.

On the flip side, so many apps these days keep data local, but the master copy is all on their servers.

You want to back up SMS, photos and any downloads, documents, files or data. It pretty much needs to be manually done.

Yes, and both should be held responsible. The person or entity that instructed itz plus open ai for allowing its software to commit illegal acts with impunity.

It’s completely ridiculous that these companies are becoming a serious social problem, while at the same time not being held to the standards that other companies would be if they did these acts without the use of ai.

The agent did nothing. Software with ability to work independently gained access under instructions to get information. This is no different to telling an employee to get something in Coles and they steal it. Hold them both accountable.

Reddit folklore.

In the times when it felt like a small community, someone was in an airport, I think and thought another person was on Reddit. They asked how they could tell for sure, and it was decided there should be a question someone could ask, where the answer would make it clear that they were a Reddit user. The question was “when does a narwhal bacon”. The answer was midnight.

That and common task automation, like updating containers. Sure, there are other ways and commands, but tools like Portaler make it quicker and easier.