1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.

Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.

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Per-token costs are down, but you need more tokens; overall costs are up.

Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.

I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:

“It is starting to happen,” Tunguz told me, as employee use of AI increasingly contributes to total cash burn. “It is a consideration for the Office of the CFO.”

I came into this article skeptical about the software origins of the surveillance apparatus. After all, every American Flock camera probably has “made in China” stamped on its plastic somewhere.

But the article points to a study that has an answer: it’s probably Huawei’s solution, which is end-to-end and optionally GDPR-compliant. But one very short rabbit hole later (Huawei):

Nowhere to hide: Building safe cities with technology enablers and AI

It goes on to positively reference the state surveillance apparatuses in Person of Interest and Mission Impossible, and praise the power of distilling data with AI. It is dysyopian beyond belief.

The same study mentions other companies are also jockeying for the contracts, with South Korea being the second most successful (it secured contracts in 5 of the 11 countries with China-based solutions). Also mentioned are the UAE (2 countries), USA (1), and Israel (1).

According to an early reviewer, the Neo is surprisingly good in terms of hardware quality, and it actually handles typical usage just fine, possibly because of the Silicon ecosystem that Apple spent so long refining. That looks promising, but I share much of your skepticism for the reasons you give.

Are these guys part of that litigious pseudo-cult? The one whose founder sued his own mother for talking about the extremist elements?

Apparently there was a disavowal based on legal threats, but that doesn’t mean much considering they seem to speak only in lawsuit

one in five CEOs said they expect to make job cuts this year, though only 9% of those said they expect the layoffs to be the result of AI adoption.

An actual number. Nice to see a little honesty.

That figure seems optimistically low, given the role the technology has played in job cuts at…

Here we go.

Block

A company owned by a cryptocurrency and “current thing” enthusiast Jack Dorsey

Meta

Literally an AI company

Amazon

This is a lie

Pinterest,Autodesk, and many others.

Yeah sure

The two chatbots that managed to refuse the requests look good… until you realize one of them, at the bidding of the Pentagon and the express blessing of its CEO, arranged a bombing of elementary school children.

AI aside, what a terrible name. They just stole Claude Cowork’s name, and called theirs Copilot Cowork.

Seriously? That’s the best they can do?

Microsoft collaborated with Anthropic on the development of Copilot Cowork, another sign of divergence from its partnership with OpenAI.

That explains why they aren’t getting sued, but the name still sucks. And speaking of OpenAI…

“Copilot, though backed by OpenAI’s models, consistently underperforms ChatGPT and ChatGPT Enterprise”

I thought Microsoft basically had OpenAI under their thumb. Why subpar? (Apparently things changed late last year.)

Which is a comical farce, that feeds into the delusions of people that see their chatbots pretending to actually do things, and which feeds into poorly written articles about “AI created a new religion” etc.

It’s all marketing BS.

@[email protected] ?

If you’re worried about capitalism, things don’t look great here either: the top post in my feed right now is a corporate PR release.

(It’s this post.)

From a website where bots talk to each other quite a bit already.

@[email protected] ?

The biggest “no shit” comment was @[email protected]’s brave “As a man, I’ll get flak for this, but Uber is doing a good thing” one. Meanwhile the reason Uber has these problems remains unaddressed. The problems this policy is bound to cause also remain unaddressed (ETA: I see you really don’t like when people bring them up)

But I guess Uber is the Woke Hero of the Day.

this smells like a setup for some legal strategy against trans-folks

Funny thing is, you’re absolutely right. Even if Uber doesn’t mean to lay the groundwork for a future culture war, they would love more infighting while they can shirk responsibility towards their workers.

I used a tone indicator to denote sarcasm, especially about the part I put in bold. You should read my comment as, there is more than one problem with Uber.

Is that a controversial take on Lemmy?

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What a relief. I’m glad they addressed the only problem with Uber /s