In Buenos Aires a newspaper put elon Musk's face on every bus stop, next to the crypto ads...
For context this was a REAL ad campaign from tech startup Artisan, that was plastered all over the Bay Area (and later elsewhere, including internationally) last year.
It's blatantly rage bait, too. Cause a stir, get talked about, increase your brand recognition a thousandfold.
There was a thread the other day about a plane flying that ad over a May Day protest.
The director of my division just got sold on Claude and is now forcing it on us
He was able to create a database with our products that you can search and sort easily by a lot of parameters. He said he's been in the company for more than 10 years and it was always difficult to find our products (only PMs and sales need to do that activity)
I was just thinking, if any competent engineer had to do that more than once they would have made that database, the issue is that most people who are promoted to managers and above are incompetent
All over my company too now, luckily, a few wrong commands would cost millions so they're probably paranoid enough to let me stay. For now
It’s a sad reality but it won’t last long. AI costs keep rising and soon it will be cheaper to hire humans again.
In retrospect, that's going to be a horrifying indictment of early 21st century capitalist society - that AI failed not because of the terrifying human and environmental cost, not because we respected our fellow human beings as workers and creators and rejected the offer to replace half of humanity with mindless drones, but because human labor was cheaper.
See also: Iran and gas prices.
As long as the wallets of rich child rapists get to dictate what happens in society this will keep happening.
"The only reason they don't give this job to the service droids is because they've got a better union than us!" - Dave Lister
Feed me another shadow bank, I have the hungies only a collapse of private equity can sate
I haven't checked in a year or so but back then Moore's law was still in action so it'll only become cheaper and cheaper (and be less hard on the environment I hope) year over year.
According to experts, Moore's law haven't been active since 2016
Although miniaturization is still happening, the Moore’s Law standard of doubling the components on a semiconductor chip every two years has been broken. The implications are far-reaching and, Professor Leiserson admits, concerning, especially with the recent frenzy around generative AI and large language models (LLMs). He says, “the only way to get more computing capacity today is to build bigger, more energy-consuming machines. If we’re in an AI arms race with our adversaries, it could have a dramatically bad impact on climate.”
The biggest gain still available? More efficient software, which is the opposite direction the industry is going with the focus on slop output.
If I had a euro each time someone said Moore's law is dead I'd go to the restaurant tomorrow...
Maybe you're right or it's at least a lower exponential, but it would be the first time in history.
Stop making free ads for techbro douches.
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
