The grid is always balancing supply and demand. Any mismatch builds up and would cause a black out if the power was really not available.

That's a great question Shalafi! The answer is government mandated pillow talks to your AI companions. Would you like me to provide todays' topics in advance?

You're not alone in thinking that. The US economy is growing but all of that is allocated to 5 companies, and in any case the owners of that equity aren't a majority median income earners. We've essentially decoupled the economic health of the common person, who would actually spend on the bubble survivors, from the overall "strength" of the US economy.

An interesting discussion on that thought about halfway through this - https://www.ft.com/content/bd6545dc-41b7-42db-af77-b2f32a1c9ae1

Pretty sure Trump banned woke energy

pretty sure they dont have the funds to build a power plant that is renewable, or a nuclear plant. thats why the cost of water/electricity is passed onto customers of electric and water companies.

Aaaaaaany minute now.

keep the golden investment

Like investors have much choice. There's no big ticket item left promising much growth because most of the population has been squeezed and shaken down for every cent.

Bubble's gotta bubble.

I agreed years ago, but it's too late now.

"Big Data", "Neural Net", etc etc, they keep changing the buzzword for this crap for the past decade.

AI just resonates with the public because everyone has seen Terminator movies. Your dipshit CEO of Buttplugs Inc has no clue what an LLM, or neural net is. But he knows what AI is and he delusionally believes it's going make Buttplug inc. more profitable in the future.

It's effective marketing.

The term "AI" today is almost like the term "computer" decades ago.

As in, "this new vehicle is more efficient than ever thanks to a new aerodynamic shape created not on the drawing board, but on the computer."

i saw my first hover board in back to the future, the pink one. now it’s that overpriced exploding segway.

at least the name segway was almost creative

Right, but in the same spirit, we're not just talking about LLMs. If we're being accurate, the common interface we're used to with ChatGPT or Gemini, they are a system of different models including LLMs and other models for images, or sound.

If we're talking AI in movies and music, besides LLMs for writing, we're mainly concerned with diffusion models

If we're talking AI for wearables... That's usually more on the sensor/classification side of ML, so it's not even generative.

yes, I'll call them AI when they are sentient D:

I was spoiled by Iain Banks's Culture <3

That's so freaking funny. Pratchett was just so good.

If I recall correctly that's the same warehouse that later supercools a golem, making him very smart for a bit.

Because idiots think that if we let the super rich become ultra rich then they will somehow in turn become regular rich.

The rich have it going both ways. They have convinced a subset of the lower classes to fight amongst and blame each other. Meanwhile they very shortdightedly are maximizing profits (not from the lower classes anymore because they have essentially bled us dry) but from other rich people who want to invest to maximize profits.

They have forgotten that the only way capitalism remains sustainable over time is if they continue to both provide products and services lower class individuals will spend money on, and if they continue to pay those lower class individuals money so they have money to spend. Right now they're busy grifting each other and our government is too stupid to look to the future, realize that the bubble has to pop sometime, and realize what that will mean for the market, the tax system, the tax payers, and the populace at large.

This is class warfare for profits over literally everything and it is going to crash the economy probably sooner rather than later.

and then try to salvage thier industry, by hiring"cheaply" SENIOR tech/engineers,,,etc and maybe outsource to AI=ALWAYS indians and still face bankruptcy.

Prices stay elevated but stop increasing, because, as we've learned from the "supply chain issues" of covid, prices must never come down even if the supposed cause of price increases is resolved.

Three ideas, one, memory chip makers pivot back to their usual lanes (maybe we get a glut and prices drop). Two, memory chip makers sink and bought by new memory chip makers (maybe more competition). Three, memory chip makers implode and machines are lost (production loss and prices shoot up). Any of these options will probably result in prices remaining the same sadly.