‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’

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  • Jesus. Every “Our autocorrect escaped it’s sandbox and is gonna go skynet any second now” Is just scaremongering. Every time the tech CEOs go “we are looking into this. Oh and we can’t relase our next model to the public because it’s too powerful, and we need governmental limits on training.” Why on earth would a CEO of for profit company say that, if they finally are that close to their mythical AGI that could make them trillions?

    The truth is that have hit a wall, they hit a wall years ago in training and inference and most AI progress has been just better harnesses and other auxiliary software and they are just bleeding money for every small gain that they make with training. They just can’t admit to that, so they need the Uncle Sam to play the villain and “stop them or at least slow them from winning too much” so they have an excuse to not deliver what they know that they cannot. So they pull off these “our AI escaped it’s sandbox, and caused virulent flame war on r/Europe and then proceeded to short some Kazakhstani corn futures. We barely stopped it when it was gnawing at Pentagon firewalls.” type of stunts. If a single company says that they are slowing down development for safety (to stop bleeding money before it’s too late) then their jig is up, they lose investors and go belly up with their debts in months. However if the whole field is frozen with a government mandate from on high, then the companies can stop bleeding money collectively. Maybe then the field and US economy can be saved from the AI bubble.







  • Does it go something like this? Those companies who buy the NAND chips to make AI accelerators, SSDs and RAM for data centers are the Microns customers, like Nvidia. Even if they are in trouble and know that the datacenters are not being built, they can’t cancel the deals because that would call the bubble into question. They will have to take any markup deal that Micron gives, them because if they don’t there will be nothing for them nor Micron anyway.



  • Korkki@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlX11 vs Wayland
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    3 months ago

    Is it even a debate at this point? x11 is on it’s way out and wayland transition is pretty much complete within the gnu/linux ecosystem. Vast majority of distros and desktop environments ship with wayland as the default and keep developing with wayland in mind, with holdouts like debian and mint that still use x11, I think. X11 is basically dinosaur software for legacy. Vast majority of end users will just take what is the default and that is Wayland and they don’t even notice.