Tag: Technology
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I’m so sick of these AI fluff pieces showing up on the sites of supposedly reputable news organizations that feel like little more than paid advertising. Take this piece from The Guardian as a prime example. Yet another evacuation of verbal diarrhea to declare that AI isn’t the problem: you are, we are, I am! We are simply too stupid to understand it! “Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won’t touch it at all. But there’s a third group. They learn to work with AI critically, treat it like a bright, enthusiastic intern that…
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I’ve seen a plethora of “5-minute experts” pontificating on “Data Centers In SPAAAAAAAACCE Space”, touting it as the solution to AI’s power and cooling needs. Notably, the idea has gained considerable credibility since it was vomited up by the World’s Richest Idiot, Elon Musk. Perhaps this was an attempt to shift the narrative away from the shitshow that is Tesla, his begging to party with Epstein, and that none of his promises with regards to technology, or Mars colonization, ever bear fruit. Clearly, his ketamine induced halucinations genius, or Groks, doesn’t extend to basic thermodynamics as my favourite science educator…
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“Today, we’re beginning to test ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. The test will be for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not have ads. Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers.” Let me rephrase that for you, Sam and co: “We’re bleeding money. We lose money across the board. Nobody is really using our product. We’re introducing ads in a desperate attempt to generate some revenue to offset a tiny portion of our massive debt…
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Google has proposed changes to how Google Search works in order to promote a “fairer deal” for consumers and businesses in a market that is absolutely dominated by Google. To be clear, these are proposals, not laws, and are only at the consultation phase. Google Search accounts for more than 90% of all general search queries in the UK – with millions of people relying on it as a key gateway to the internet. More than 200,000 firms in the UK collectively spent more than £10 billion on Google’s search advertising last year.…
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