- joelthelionNow that their market is established, I don't think open-source is a requirement anymore. They would of course share with hardware vendors strategically.
- This is really cool, but, longer term, what happens if Google makes android closed source? I feel this is a very real risk.
- They don't care. They have a dogmatic belief that they're right.
- Closed as a duplicate of "cloudflare outage"
- Do they really need to ground the entire fleet for that? One incident for ten thousand planes in the air for years. I'd think that giving airlines two months to fix it would be sufficient.
- > When do you expect that impact? I think the models seem smarter than their economic impact would imply.
> Yeah. This is one of the very confusing things about the models right now.
As someone who's been integrating "AI" and algorithms into people's workflows for twenty years, the answer is actually simple. It takes time to figure out how exactly to use these tools, and integrate them into existing tooling and workflows.
Even if the models don't get any smarter, just give it a few more years and we'll see a strong impact. We're just starting to figure things out.
- I am familiar with PET. As we both agree, PET does not use antimatter directly, so this article is irrelevant to it (which is what the original comment was asking about).
- PET doesn't use antimatter, at least it doesn't use it directly. It uses regular radioactive tracers.
- Then Gnome isn't for you. It's an opiniated desktop, you have to accept its way of doing things.
- I love Gnome! I understand it's not for everyone, but it certainly doesn't deserve all the hate it receives.
- If open windows are bugging you, you can simply move to a new workspace, as you mention. There's a keyboard shortcut, so that's actually very easy to do.
Gnome is very different from more common desktop environments, but if you accept to try and work with it the way it's designed, it can be productive and enjoyable.
- (not from the US) If xfinity sucks so much, could you try switching to a different provider?
- What is really missing for parquet's wide adoption is support in Excel.
- I wouldn't mind being able to quickly ask an llm about the page I'm browsing or some text I select.
- A lot of that cement production still uses fossil fuels.
In my mind, all the electricity production capacity we can build needs to go to the electrification of the existing economy, not new stuff and especially not the current brand of AI.
- If I read the data right (1) the US currently produces roughly 4,000 TWh of electricity every year. 500 TWh is a significant portion of that! The US will need a lot of additional capacity for things like electric cars and heat pumps. Most of the effort should be going towards that, not huge data centers attending to unproven demand (how many people will pay the real price for ChatGPT once the VC subsidy ends remains to be proven).
1: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/electric...
- All good questions, I don't claim to have all the answers. What I'm saying is that using gigawatts of power for "AI" in this day and age is madness.
I do like the market insulation idea you propose in another comment (I would link to it, but apparently HN doesn't allow that).
- No, it's not standing still. It's setting the priorities straight.
Completing the energy transition is an enormous undertaking. Building huge data centers is a distraction, not a way forward.
- Because we live on a finite planet and unregulated capitalism won't end well.
- Building gigantic data centers doesn't help in that respect. The data centers are there to do inference at scale, not cutting edge research.