What pisses me off so much about the AI bubble as someone who was trained in science is the basic obvious fact that if you have a magic tool that can “solve any problem” but that takes a nearly impossible amount of energy to do so, taking so much energy that everything else has to be sidelined in order to power this magic problem solving tool… than you are just restating that the tool you have is incapable of problem solving.

Suppose there are two problem solving machines A and B. Problem solving machine A does not work very well but it takes a small amount of energy and material to function, problem solving machine B is like AI in that it can tackle “any problem” if given nearly all the electrical power and computer chips that humans can produce.

Both problem solving machine A and B are equally useless even though the owners of problem solving machine B can make grandiose claims about the power of their problem solving machine if they conveniently exclude the “energy required” part, which as someone trained in science ends up seeming pretty damn similar to someone arguing that their perpetual motion machine is capable of perpetual motion so long as we feed all of the electrical power humanity can generate into it…

If your Oracle requires all the investment, electrical energy and computer chips earth can produce and more to tell you the future, it is not an Oracle but rather your own demise twisted into a promise of absolute power and knowledge.

Anybody who understands computer science should be able to grasp the basic idea that it is trivially easy to describe infinitely powerful computer programs that take essentially infinite time and energy to compute, that doesn’t mean anything, in fact most of computer science has been the proactive study of how to rigorously talk about programs that are impossible to execute because of outsized material demands and develop an overarching theory of computer science that nonetheless accounts for that theoretical axis. Computer science people thus should be well equipped to understand AI is just bullshit being sold as genius by disguising the cost per unit of intelligence… but they don’t really seem to grasp that basic aspect of physics in how it limits computation and it doesn’t say a lot of good about the whole industry.

There was never any other realistic option here, Microslop is too dysfunctional and lost in the fake AI “revolution” to ever hold on to game developer talent.

In both cases it ignores the deliberate, pervasive, and frequently toxic efforts of the platform curators to maximize “engagement” with their audience in pursuit of ad revenue.

We are on social media right now, this is not inherent to social media it is a choice forced on it by corporations.

Social media is humans being social through media, I am sick and tired of it being categorically villainized especially because the scientific evidence for it being inherently bad is laughable.

It must be confusing — upsetting, even! — to hear that somebody is willing to accurately and vociferously tear into a tech industry largely controlled by people with no regard for their users or workers, who are willing to bathe their products in mediocrity all because it’s the thing that everybody else is doing.

I love you Ed

The heavy users of AI are even dumber than the CEOs, at least the CEOs are getting rich.

what infrastructure will the ai bubble leave behind when it collapses?

An understandable hatred and mistrust of Silicon Valley tech types and technology in general within people.

Fucking incompetent idiots

Google is a perfect example that the idea that capitalism is inherently efficient is an absurd fantasy.

Google represents an absolutely massive waste of talent and all of it is focused on making the world a markedly worse place.

I will never use an Iphone, but the idea of Google actually caring about this stuff is ridiculous. The Android playstore is the software equivalent of a failed state.

Can we stop repeating Anthropic’s fear mongering about AI? They are just trying to prop up their stock price and keep the bubble from popping a little longer.

ACAB

Lol

Who cares anymore though? Microsoft burned all their bridges to places where the kinds of people who get excited about this kind of thing hang out. There is no button they can press to unburn those bridges and no gurantee, indeed little likelihood they can rebuild them when better bridges have been built to better places in the meantime.

Windows phone was great, what killed it was Microsoft’s clueless management.

I am shocked!

They could have at least have done a compromise where the company is Zoox and the vehicle is the anthellae, The Zoox Anthellae sounds kinda cool to me.

Aesthetically maybe, but that is a hollow fleeting sensation that is immediately suffocated by the fact that cars ruin cities no matter how “smart” they are.

yawn self driving cars are so boring, all they do is allow taxi companies to fire their drivers and treat their employees worse, how is this exciting? How is it futuristic? How does it improve and evolve cities?

Ok, I won’t buy a new phone then :)