Engineers: we can’t make transistors smaller because they wouldn’t work because of those quantum effects

Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work

Technically a checkers program is also AI if you check the dictionary definition. Many will say it’s not “real AI” as it doesn’t have general intelligence but it’s still AI. Snake oil salesmen love that.

Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.

An order of magnitude better would give trust. Slightly better doesn´t convince people.

And then the car mistook the side of a white semi for the sky and plowed full speed into the semi, decapitating the driver. These systems see, but don’t really understand what they see.

You don’t want to live on Mars when Musk is in charge of the oxygen you breath.

It’s the modern version of sacrificing people in a volcano to appease the gods.

“Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I’m doing.”

And that last group is going to be angry when they can’t keep doing their stuff when insurance rates go insane so they can’t buy houses or cars, or when food prices keep going up even faster than they are now.

Dithering, it’s a lost art. It always reminds me of Monkey Island.

“Murder your darlings” as they say in writing.

Living out the last excesses of a broken system before it all falls apart

You can almost hear the EU lawyers cracking their knuckles and quietly saying: “about that user data protection.”

AI is a ridiculous broad term these days. Everybody had been slapping the label on anything. It’s kinda like saying “transportation” and it means anything between babies crawling up to wrap drive and teleportation.

Traditionally kids do the rounds for candy on December 31th or on epiphany (three kings bringing gifts) around here. It depends on the region if one of those traditions is maintained.

Everybody forgets poor ol’ Saint Nicolas.

In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

He’s been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn’t give much confidence.

Ah yes, the “when brute force isn’t working you ain’t using enough of it” approach to AI.

It’s not such as impressive amount of power compared to existing installations. Say 75 kWh battery. 80% of that would be 60 kWh, charged over 9 minutes. That’s a 400 kW charger. Meanwhile 300 kW are reasonable common and there are a few 500 kW chargers out there. A 500 kW charger would charge the car to 80% in 7 minutes.

Camera pans down to the lower levels. Dark illuminated streets are visible, illuminated by sparse sunlight that manages to find cracks in the starship like road above. Flickering mismatched neon signs offer work, with long lines of broken humans waiting to find any job not taken over by AI and Optimus robots.

Where I live, there is a bus driver shortage leading to cancelled buses and limited service. Cyber cab, van or bus that runs the route outside of peak hours to give 24/7 service and monitor routes would be a big help. And it’s a fixed route so the system can be optimized for those.