AI slop can be bad but this Bradley doesn’t understand that businesses exist to make money.
Bradley talking about his manager:
"He doesn’t know that the important thing isn’t just the end result, it’s the journey and the questions you answer along the way”.
If Bradley is making art only for personal growth, he needs to quit and make his own indie game.
Because if you are working for someone else it’s not the journey, it’s the result. Get it done quicker and then slack.
I would expect it to look like Israel vs Palestine.
What’s the transparent face in the background visible most clearly to the right of Owen Wilson?
It looks a little like Mike Love of the Beach Boys?
As long as the silicon got snapped and not just the softer plastic around the silicon.
If it’s actually important data that a nation state would want, most of the data could still be read off with an electron microscope.
“training a new model”
Is equivalent to “make a new game” with better graphics.
I’ve already explained that analogy several times.
If people pay you for the existing model you have no reason to immediately train a better one.
When you throw more hardware at them, they are supposed to develop new abilities.
I don’t think you understand how it works at all.
Data is collected. Training is done on the data. Training is done on the trained data (deep seek). You now how a model. That model is a static software program. It requires 700 GB of ram to run (deep seek). Throwing more hardware at the model does nothing but give you a quicker response.
If everyone pays you to use your model, you have no reason to develop a new one. Like Skyrim.
I’m supposed to be able to take a model architecture from today, scale it up 100x and get an improvement.
You can make Crysis run at higher fps. You can add polygons. (remember ati clown feet?) You can add details to textures. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2016-06_infinite-resolution-textures
But really the “game” is the model. Throwing more hardware at the same model is like throwing more hardware at the same game.
Which part of diminished returns not offering as much profit did you not understand?
Current models give MS an extra 30% revenue. If they spend billions on a new model will customer pay even more? How much would you pay more for a marginally better AI?
Current games have a limit. Current models have a limit. New games could scale until people don’t see a quality improvement. New models can scale until people don’t see a quality improvement.
Like games have diminished returns on better graphics (it’s already photo realistic few pay $2k on a GPU for more hairs?), AI has a plateau where it gives good enough answers that people will pay for the service.
If people are paying you money and the next level of performance is not appreciated by the general consumer, why spend billions that will take longer to recoup?
And again data centers aren’t just used for AI.
If buying a new video card made me money, yes
But this is the supposition that not buying a video card makes you the same money. You’re forecasting free performance upgrades so there’s no need to spend money now when you can wait and upgrade the hardware once software improvements stop.
And that’s assuming it has anything to do with AI but the long term macroeconomics of Trump destroying the economy so MS is putting off spending when businesses will be slowing down because of the tariff war.
More efficient hardware use should be amazing for AI since it allows you to scale even further.
If you can achieve scaling with software, you can delay current plans for expensive hardware. If a new driver came out that gave Nvidia 5090 performance to games with gtx1080 equivalent hardware would you still buy a new video card this year?
When all the Telcos scaled back on building fiber in 2000, that was because they didn’t have a positive outlook for the Internet?
Or when video game companies went bankrupt in the 1980’s, it was because video games were over as entertainment?
There’s a huge leap between not spending billions on new data centers ( which are used for more than just AI), and claiming that’s the reason AI is over.
Cancelling new data centers because deep seek has shown a more efficient path isn’t proof that AI is dead as the author claims.
Fiber buildouts were cancelled back in 2000 because multimode made existing fiber more efficient. The Internet investment bubble popped. That didn’t mean the Internet was dead.
It’s my theory that QAnon was being controlled by Republican election strategists. Steve Bannon has bragged about this.
It was no coincidence that Pizzagate started immediately after the news broke that Trump used to go into teenage dressing rooms.
If it was simple mob extortion it would be reasonable. Zelensky originally agreed when he thought the deal would be to pay for American protection.
But Trump wants the money AND wants Ukraine to surrender. Trump is a stupid mob boss who doesn’t understand why “Pay me and I’ll let the rival gang burn your business.” isn’t going to be accepted.
Original version:
Every body persists in its state of being at rest or moving uniformly straight forward, unless it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.
Corrected translation:
Every body persists in its state of being at rest or moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed.
There’s no change in meaning.
‘Except insofar’ is a perfect synonym of ‘unless’.
Everything you’d want to know about British wiring and my introduction to Tom Scott:
A “more” button after the one liner would be very nice. Or make the one-liner a link that gives a longer description.
Thanks for the work. I’ve bookmarked it!
So you would prefer lots of meetings, messages and redone work instead of someone showing you a picture that kind of represents what they want?