- nuc1e0nThe results of a poll commissioned by ofcom are worthless.
- Such lingistic differences of phrasing are the source of much conflict in my opinion.
- >once you bulldoze all that concrete and steel
You're not quite thinking things through there man. Once the elites who built these follies have gone, the mob will go shopping for building materials. I wouldn't be surprised even if people end up living in these datacentres once they become derelict. They have AC after all.
- Why even bother with the text generation then? You could just make a phone call to an LLM with a TTS frontend. Like with directory enquiries back in the day. Which can be set up as easily as a BBS if you have a home server rack like Jeff Geerling makes youtube videos about.
- How big does an LLM need to be to support natural language queries with RAG?
- The article claims that AI services are currently over-utilised. Well isn't that because customers are being undercharged for services? A car when in neutral will rev up easily if the accelerator pedal is pushed even very slightly, because there's no load on the engine. But in gear the same engine will rev up much less when the accelerator is pushed the same amount. Will there be the same overutilisation occurring if users have to financially support the infrastructure, either through subscriptions or intrusive advertising?
I doubt it.
And what if the technology to locally run these systems without reliance on the cloud becomes commonplace, as it now is with open source models? The expensive part is in the training of these models more than the inference.
- Why don't US car companies just improve their safety standards?
- The brain can still use other means of working in addition to brute forcing solutions. For example, how would you go about solving the chess puzzle of eight queens that doesn't involve going through the potential positions and then filtering out the options that don't match the criteria for the solution?
Prolog can also evaluate mathematical expressions directly as well.
- What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
- The memory accesses being nicely arranged is kinda why the focus has moved to AI in recent years. Moores law is that much easier to keep going if parallelization increases, such as with GPUs and SIMD on CPUs. That extra Silicon needs to be made productive somehow to be justified.
- Is now the right time for a short position with them? Yes they're overvalued, but the market still seems kinda frothy.
- Keith is an internet legend
- To use SQL effectively a certain amount of training is needed. But people are trained to read and write and do arithmatic. How to understand and write simple relational database queries is a broadly useful skill that should be widely taught in schools.
When it comes to written English, perhaps that could do with some reforms just as with SQL. Yet the way we write remains mostly unchanged.
- Seriously, do we really need better computers now? They're good enough. We need better medical bio-tech instead.
- The Blackwall tunnel vent badly needs a fresh coat of paint.
- In science fiction robots are commonplace. How where they built? That's never explained, because sci-fi isn't real.
- Centuries ago, the building materials for castles was taken by the locals and reused to build their houses with. Those data centres have a lot of sheet metal in them. Air conditioning units as well. The upgraded power networks around those data centres will alter where people live too. Oh and there's a lot of electric motors with copper wire in all the fans and hard drives those computers have.
- The Latin alphabet that we use is itself an evolution of Heiroglyphics. The linked site also says we have no knowledge of how the ancient Egyptians reached their mathematical conclusions.
That's not true. The Rhind mathematical papyrus documents worked mathematical problems. Matt Parker of the youtube channel "stand up maths" did a collaboration video recently with Ilona Regulski of the British Museum about it.
- The thing is the infrastructure that is being built now is owned by a small number of already large companies. Is it really that likely that Microsoft, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, Oracle, Nvidia and all the companies Elon Musk is involved with are going to go bankrupt?
- That makes them venture capitalist fantasies then.