...and as long as Americans are up in arms about data centers, we'll never take the lead ever again.
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The chances this fixes it are... Remote.
While I sort of agree with you that that is his angle, service jobs that aren't easily automatable will continue to climb in the "job stability and pay rate" category until the world figures out how to deal with Baumol's Cost Disease:
Just in time for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame!
Right, Valve? Right?
...any day now...
Fortipatch your Fortishit already!
The suspects were audibly upset that their underground cartel has finally come to light.
Doesn't matter. It's the act of recording that's setting people off, not the publishing.
I don't know what the law is in Belgium but I bet it's the act of recording without consent that's illegal. Many European nations have laws like that and it seems short-sighted and wrong. It enables corruption.
These are both anti-data center messages. That's orthogonal to AI.
I bet if you asked these people if we should get rid of all data centers they'd say, "yes." Completely unaware that they're using (and relying on) services running out of data centers every day.
I'm surprised farmers aren't up in arms about this. This is the exact data that goes into the weather models that they rely on.
Is it going to rain much this season? Who TF knows! Trump removed all the sensors!
Are they really concerned that giant, ugly glasses contain not-actually-hidden-at-all cameras when actual devices, specifically designed to be hidden exist that do a vastly superior job?
This article is clickbait.
Aside: IMHO, recording anyone in public should always be allowed. The fact that it's men recording women shouldn't matter in the slightest. You have no expectation of privacy when you're in public.
If we ban recording in public without permission, tons of crimes will go unreported and actual villains will be able to get away with all sorts of horrific crimes. Imagine getting arrested or fined for recording someone being mugged, or kidnapped, or similar.
Are the cops beating someone to death right in front of you? Better not record that without asking for permission! Just walk out into the open and kindly ask for permission from both the cops and the victim.
Big AI investors should be worried! I use AI every day at work (mostly for code-related things) and the open weights/free models are nearly as good as their ridiculously expensive services. Which are only getting more expensive over time!
Not only that, but the free stuff is improving at a faster rate than the models Big AI is putting out. The only thing keeping Big AI alive right now is coasting. Businesses haven't figured out that they can self-host the free models with their own (or rented) hardware for a fraction of the cost.
As soon as these businesses figure out that you can configure Copilot in Visual Studio Code to use FREE models that are 90% as good as Big AI, it's over for Big AI.
There's also dozens of great tools to run ChatGPT-like interfaces using local models and they let you switch which models you want to use on-the-fly. Also, we've got ZeroClaw now which works better with free/tiny models for most of the stuff you'd want to use it for.
Aside: Big AI also has a Big Problem with security that goes away if you use local AI models: You never have to worry about leaking credentials or proprietary/confidential information to the cloud/Big AI.