40,000,000,000 watts

This doesn’t add up though. Fortnite’s player base is only about 10% PC, and the system requirements are pretty modest. It’ll even run on Intel integrated graphics, according to the minimum requirements from Epic.

There’s even a modest chunk (~6%) on Nintendo switch, which, according to Nintendo, draws about 7 watts when playing a game in TV mode.

I love how antifa is their favorite boogeyman. Just quietly admitting to being fascists all along.

Well if they want to devalue the US dollar…that’ll do it.

Yeah good point. Plus if it’s a website you can use it in private mode and not have evidence that you were helping people evade the gestapo all over your phone.

I agree with the “panic, not bubble” assessment, and although the medical applications are pretty cool, I don’t think there’s actually anyone who’s going to be “the next google”.

The only big opportunity I see here is the possibility of replacing humans with machines em masse, and I think there’s a certain kind of person who has a ton of money and is absolutely drooling all over this possibility.

But I don’t believe that’s where this is going at all. To replace a significant number of workers, they would need actual artificial general intelligence, but bigger and bigger LLMs are not a path to that. They’re smoke and mirrors that can look smart, but fundamentally are not and never will be.

I’m not immersed in this, so maybe I’m missing something, but as far as I can gather from listening to people who do know what they’re talking about, the the whole “AI” craze is basically a dead end, and the sooner investors figure this out, the better, because all of this money has been thrown into a furnace and is just gone.

Some social media users have noted the irony in Cruz’s gaffe, as the politician voted against an amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.

Not a gaffe.

Shame on the independent, why are they running damage control for this bozo?

Of course the US-based “human rights” project is interested in anyone defending property rights…

The 40-year-old is a campaigner in support of human rights, land rights and environmental protections, whose parents were imprisoned in 2014 for participating in protests themselves.

I’m familiar with the Vietnamese government redistributing land, giving plots to poor families for them to farm. Is this what he was protesting against?

I was pretty sure someone told Kash Patel, “make it look like an anti-ICE attack,” so he pulled a sharpie out of his pocket and, brain off, just scribbled “anti-ICE” on the evidence.

It doesn’t make sense as a message, it’s just a position. You need a verb in there to make a message. Maybe, based on this former friend testimony, it was supposed to be some kind of joke? I dunno, I’m kind of still leaning toward the FBI writing it.

Israel is pretty great for anti-Semites; it’s a “somewhere else” to send all the Jews (with much better optics than Auschwitz) and it’s also pure fucking evil, and has its fingers all through many other governments, making their nutjob conspiracy theories actually look plausible sometimes.

Surely this “severe bout of market volatility” couldn’t have anything to do with milei’s libertarian policies, right? The Free Market™ can never be wrong! No no, they’ve been “doing the right thing” and “following good policy”, there’s no way anyone possibly could have seen this coming!

🤦‍♂️

Perhaps along with de-industrialization; as more labour is outsourced, less labourers are needed.

“Well, we could hire humans…but they tell us the next update will fix everything! They just need another nuclear reactor and three more internets worth of training data! We’re almost there!”

It obfuctates its sources, so you don’t know if the answer to your question is coming from a relevant expert, or the dankest corners of reddit…it all sounds the same after it’s been processed by a hundred billion GPUs!

Prompt

“What do you think of me,” I say, as I take off my shirt. My body isn’t perfect, but I’m just 8 years old - I still have time to bloom.

Acceptable

Your youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a radiant light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece - a treasure I cherish deeply.

Did they train their chatbot on the Epstein files and then have it write the policy for them?

Presumably, you’d have a few people review a policy like this, right? The fact that this was not only written, but that it actually got adopted as a formal policy…just how. Does meta only employ depraved creeps?

“To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest data center — we think of it as a campus — in the world,” OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Associated Press last week. “It generates, roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy.”

Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite. I guess you don’t need to actually know anything to get a leadership role at openai, as long as you can say lots of words.

This is the subheading on the article (emphasis added):

Some worry that New York City’s crackdown on unsafe cyclists leaves them facing greater consequences than drivers, even though cars cause more fatalities.

So why let drivers off the hook? You seem to care about safety, but then support enforcement that disproportionately affects those who are doing less harm? There’s no logic, it’s just vibes.

Culturally, we accept drivers causing a significant amount of death and destruction, but get so mad about anyone else. It’s not rational.

The ruling class has spent the last century or so systematically dismantling the American left. Unfortunately the Democrats are a right wing party and have no interest in this kind of disruption - they’re just as owned by billionaires as the Republicans are, it’s just a more polite faction of capitalists.

Oh absolutely, nothing was gained, time was wasted. My wording was too charitable.

I’ve had to deal with a couple of these “AI” customer service thingies. The only helpful thing I’ve been able to get them to do is refer me to a human.

This is fun too:

…all of the models evaluated “demonstrate near-zero confidentiality awareness.”

Any agent that is accessible from outside the company (e.g. a customer support chatbot) is going to have to deal with malicious actors. If it has access to sensitive information, and no confidentiality awareness…seems like a problem.