echodot

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[–] echodot 3 points 1 day ago

It's also a bizarre take anyway.

If this is some kind of Chinese plot to take down the AI companies it's a bit of a weird one. Since in order to keep the ruse going they would have to subsidize everybody's AI usage essentially for the rest of time.

[–] echodot 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am personally of the opinion that IKEA sells furniture as a loss leader, and their real business is Swedish meatballs.

[–] echodot -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Snake oil will be snake oil even in 100 years. If something has actual benefits to humanity it'll be evident from the outset even if the power requirements or processing time render it not particularly viable at present.

Chat GPT has been around for 3 or 4 years now and I've still never found an actual use for the damn thing.

[–] echodot 33 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I don't understand why everyone's freaking out about this.

Saying you can train an AI for "only" 8 million. It is a bit like saying that it's cheaper to have a bunch of university professors do something than to teach a student how to do it. Yeah and that is true, as long as you forget about the expense of training the professors in the first place.

It's a distilled model, so where are you getting the original data from if not for the other LLMs?

[–] echodot 4 points 1 day ago

My router takes forever to discharge. I was trying to unplug the Christmas lights earlier this month and I unplugged the router by mistake it must have been a good 30 seconds before I plugged it back in again and it was still on.

I don't know if that's supposed to be a feature, or if it's just got some really out of specs electronics inside.

It's just some cheap router that you get from your ISP I don't know why it's like that.

[–] echodot 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No one who currently watches MTV has ever known it to play music videos. It's been this kind of garbage their entire lives

[–] echodot 5 points 1 day ago

Sounds like channel 4 in the UK although they would probably call it something like Horny Benefits Scrounges.

[–] echodot 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well there's a spectrum isn't there and everybody puts their marker just slightly ahead of what they like. Unless you go full furry, in which case I guess you don't have any use for the marker

[–] echodot 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah but my grandmother was 104 when she died. She married my grandfather when she was in her twenties and I really don't think she was really all that bothered about him it was just the done thing back then.

She definitely would take the opportunity to be judgy, while at the same time technically passing the requirements by her own standards to be in heaven.

[–] echodot 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even if he could overrule health and safety laws there's absolutely no reason for him to do that. Increasing trade with the European Union just makes the likes of Reform look weaker while at the same time not giving the general public yet another reason to dislike him.

Allowing US meat byproducts into the supermarkets is a lose-lose situation.

[–] echodot 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think anyone in the Trump administrator is really a big thinker when it comes to international economics otherwise they wouldn't be messing around with this utterly self-destructive tariff idea.

[–] echodot 9 points 3 days ago

Most Americans acknowledge the existence of other countries, that just refuse to believe those other countries have access to electricity, plumbing, or the internet.

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