If Nvidia would like, I would gladly take a check from them for 20k to pay them 20k for a GPU, just like a proper AI datacenter does. Same tricks in datacenter for big revenue could happily work for consumer GPUs then.

You are correct. Further, AI kind of fell into their lap, though they did have the core competency to sustain supporting that.

However, even if Huang did not drive the success directly, another leader could easily tank things. Just like how when a good president can't magic the economy into being great, a very bad president can screw it up.

I would say the sort of potential CEO to secure leadership of the second largest market cap in the world is the most likely sort of terrible leader to do that. The sharks that circle for that sort of prize are the ones most eager to burn it all to the ground for the sake of short term self enrichment.

Yes, broadly speaking we decide if we don't know better, but it sounds right, then it is probably right.

AI excels at sounding right no matter what.

But not new, if you take a look at most business successes, you'll definitely find confidence, but often not competence. "Confidence men" have been a thing for a reason, and business leaders are usually con-men.

AI is good at being a con-man.

With specific stocks, sometimes there is never a recovery.

Even if you buy index fund, the time you need to hold may be quite long. If you bought SP500 at the wrong time in 1999, you would have had to hold until about 2013 to see consistent gains.

Just saying buy the dip based solely on the fact that "what goes down must come up" is not a very sound approach by itself.

It made me think about how we are fearing the potential of a Carrington event hitting us in the modern era, how bad it would be and how much it will take to build back.

It occurs to me that we could just have a 'software calamity' of similar scale, since we love putting so many eggs in so few baskets controlled by people that want to ditch all their expensive intelligent caretakers and slop things up into oblivion instead.

obscure reference to a beloved (by me) PC game of the early 90s, star control 2, now freely available as 'the ur quan masters'

Specifically, it's dialog your character can say to the Supox: https://star-control.fandom.com/wiki/Supox

To which they agree, and say that the fact it goes against science is proof of their divinity.

Well they solved that by canning bioware altogether.

Nope, not signing up with reddit again to read some comments.

Perplexity is running an ad saying that anyone can use their AI to make slop videos and make thousands a month on the video platforms with zero effort...

They have ruled works wholly constructed without human input are not subject to copyright.

However in those cases the humans explicitly stated they had not influenced the output in any way. If a human claims they modified it, then the modified work can be subject to copyright. Good luck disproving a human assertion that they modified it.

My laptop sleeps fine after latest update... Of fedora

Annie are you ok?