Goldman Sachs, quote from the article:

“AI technology is exceptionally expensive, and to justify those costs, the technology must be able to solve complex problems, which it isn’t designed to do.”

Generative AI can indeed do impressive things from a technical standpoint, but not enough revenue has been generated so far to offset the enormous costs. Like for other technologies, It might just take time (remember how many billions Amazon burned before turning into a cash-generating machine? And Uber has also just started turning some profit) + a great deal of enshittification once more people and companies are dependent. Or it might just be a bubble.

As humans we’re not great at predicting these things including of course me. My personal prediction? A few companies will make money, especially the ones that start selling AI as a service at increasingly high costs, many others will fail and both AI enthusiasts and detractors will claim they were right all along.

It is! Hence the realization that I got older. Sorry, re-reading my comment above I wasn’t clear

For me it clicked when pretty girls started tallking and being nice to me

Yup, they just stopped pretending. For years they thought they had to keep up a friendly facade for us peasants, but Trump showed them that it’s no longer needed.

“we were using ChatGPT to design our server architecture and…” (OpenAI PR tomorrow, probably…)

Thank you! I corrected my comment

Ah sorry, I think I used a Spanish word. Is it not used in English?

He did something very wrong. Apologize after a failed golpe coup? That’s not how you president! Amateur

EDIT: golpe is not English…

that’s probably what happens. Tomatoes get at least half-processed in China, so they are less perishable and cheaper to transport and then mixed with that 1% of “true italian” tomato puree and bottled/canned somewhere in Italy so the result can be marketed as an italian product.

This is not specific to tomatoes. I remember an article doing the math for Chianti and questioning how millions of liters of wine can all come from grapes grown on a few hills in a small part of Tuscany.

I like this. Just a couple of additions, for the purpose of trying to improve on this lore.

First, Native Americans do have ghosts too (see https://allthatsinteresting.com/native-american-ghost-stories for instance).

If “ghosts” are just the embers of a particularly strong emotion that burned in a particular place, I suggest that “seeing” the ghost depends on being able to tune-in to that emotion and on having the cultural tools to interpret it and personify it.

So I might experience some faint, weird feeling going through a field where a battle between Native American tribes once happened but, as a white person imbued with a specific culture, I would not be able to recognize that particular mix of feelings and “see” that ghost. But a Native American might.

And if a big department store is built on top of that field, it would make it harder to both tune in to that particular faint feeling (among the confusion of so many other feelings) and to personify it as an old Navajo warrior, which would not make sense to us in that place

exactly! “I was energized to meet with the team in X and discuss our sales figures” or “congrats, company Y, for disrupting the market of foot creams” is the best use of AI.

I’m not sure how you would even be able to tell if that type of content is AI-generated or just plain old copy-pasted from one of a thousand similar posts

I see what you mean and I agree with you too. He’s no longer a private citizen “just voicing his opinion” or “just asking questions”. When you are in power, words have consequences.

The issue is that both Musk and Trump were already professional trolls and liars. Now they actually weaponized trolling to create anger and fear, which directly feed votes and power into the side they have chosen to represent. How do you fight that? Do you still try NOT to feed the troll, when the troll is leading the most powerful nation on Earth?

if you want to listen to 35 minutes of annoying music, press 1. If you want to get insulted personally by an operator stay on the line

can we start collectively ignoring whatever Musk says? I am individually starting to, making one last exception with this comment, but only collectively we can really make a difference in making the world (or at least Lemmy) a quieter, Elon-less place. If he does something newsworthy for good (puts a person on Mars) or for bad (I don’t know where to start here…) then by all means let’s celebrate or sulk but when he talks or Xits let his voice disperse as quickly as a fart in the wind.

Ok. I Hope there were industrial secrets or some weird espionage thing going on because the premise of foreign intelligence paying a guy to burn down a business sounds like peak Zapp Brannigan.

Looking forward to “yes I admit drinking one too many and getting naked at the Christmas party; Russia paid me to do it!”

Plus, you know that a human body is like 70% water? If you’re one of those billionaire vampires you are going to be just fine.

I’m not a master diplomat but this is negotiation 101: don’t look too keen to negotiate, start from a position of strength.

Trump’s opening offer was to allow Putin to keep whatever he’s managed to invade and, by most accounts, Russia is now gaining territory again. Plus, Trump is clearly not so keen to continue supporting Ukraine militarily and economically (not to speak of his stance on NATO) and in Europe we are weak, divided and also increasingly voting for our own small versions of Trump (Trumpets?). Put these things together and why would Putin get all chummy and sit down to negotiate now? He’s signaling strength and taking a position of “YOU want to end this war, not me, so if you want me to stop, you better come begging and bringing gifts”.

I don’t think Musk would disagree with that definition and I bet he even likes it.

The key word here is “significant”. That’s the part that clearly matters to him, based on his actions. I don’t care about the man and I don’t think he’s a genius, but he does not look stupid or delusional either.

Musk spreads disinformation very deliberately for the purpose of being significant. Just as his chatbot says.

I keep seeing news that the Russian economy is perfectly fine… no, wait it’s in shambles… no it’s actually even better than before… no, people can’t even find bread… no, sanctions are killing it… and so on. And this is not even from different sources; different articles on the same (I hope reputable) sources.

I know that it’s hard to get a read of these things even when not in the middle of a war with lots of disinformation happening on both sides. And I also know that indicators of the economy are tricky to read and often in contradiction. But these swings are so extreme that I don’t know what to make of these articles any longer.

Wait, is that a valid argument? “You, sir are infringing on my claim that this in your pocket is MY wallet and this picture on your driver’s license is in fact MY picture.”