Posts by user555

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says

Agreed, but still wrong

The problem isn't the lack of compute, it's the lack of science. We just don't know how to build an AGI.

Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute

Re: Make them pay

These data centre build outs should also be directly paying for the grid strengthening costs beyond just getting a connection.

Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

Re: Claim to fame

> We dont just throw it all into a lagoon any more.

Probably only because some greenie complained about it ... followed by the usual countless rounds of over-budget excessively late engineering failures.

Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says

Re: Will AI reshape society? Yes.

Well, it certainly will be central structures of electricity consumption at least.

Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD's Afghan data breach

idiots on computers

Oh, man, so this was an idiot giving out editable documents instead of printing the relevant data to a PDF. So predictable. :(

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

Problem with that is the power consumption. Google will whip OpenAI's ass on efficiency. Otherwise LMMs do seem not bad at being a search engine. Not much good at anything else.

AI is the flying car of the mind: An irresistible idea nobody knows how to land or manage

Re: "heading for a hard landing"

The fact that we supposedly need trained to use it says LLM AI has failed its primary job. It's supposed to be this magically fixer with actual intelligence if all the hype is to be believed.

AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover

Re: AI == Divination?

Instead of clarifying yourself, we still have no idea which Doctor you intended.

In other words, LLMs just regurgitate ... with a bit of PRNG added. Thee is no intelligence involved.

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

No training sounds about right

Probably because everyone is clueless on what that training might be. The devs don't know and the MBAs all just wave hands for some magic to happen.

Commodore Amiga turns 40, headlines UK exhibition

Re: Have a CD32...

nearly could easily be 1997 ... that's feasible, affordable capacities rapidly grew once MSDOG's 800MB limit was crossed.

AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes

Re: A natively naive nature

There's two rather huge problems admitting this truth:

- The price tag! They're rapidly approaching a trillion USD and don't look like stopping there. What happens to your enthusiasm when you starting getting the real bill for your fun?

- The power bill! The data-centres are already straining the electricity grids. We thought Bitcoin was wasteful, the new constructions are going to blow everything out of the water.

All for what's not really anything more than a cranky search engine.

Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?

Single place for funding?

Why not suggest the UN instead? That way every country has decent opportunity to contribute ... Oh, that's right, Trump would get pissy at that idea. Can't suggest that until he's out of office.

Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted

Re: "ideological bias"

There's no shortage of brainwashing about AI.

AI industry's size obsession is killing ROI, engineer argues

Capitalism 101

Lie, lie and lie some more ... Bubbles galore!

Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule

Re: stuff that involves lots of other people being at work

Agreed. I've done stints at two companies that had shift work. The first one had fixed shifts and those that liked graveyard were happy staying on graveyard. In fact they preferred not to mingling with anyone from the other two shifts. The second company had rotating shifts. Everyone hated that.

Sacramento cops scoured energy records to target suspected weed growers, and the EFF has sued

Re: Thermometer

That would have to be incidentally seen. If a cop was to setup camp to monitor even just with eyeballs only, then that would need a warrant too.

Operating a drone for a dragnet like that would be highly unlikely to be granted because it is not target specific.

Unmetered electricity

Isn't it the usual trick to track down where the unmetered illegal taps are? I mean the last thing weed growers want to do is pay for what they can get for free.

As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

Re: We've got to stop sending files to each other

I believe he may have been talking about corporate policies. Where all company data be responsibly managed via controlled means. Laptops being locked down, having no locally accessible storage. The company IT dept sorts it all out. Dropbox would have no place in the work flow.

Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the mighty Atari 2600 after realizing it can't match ancient console

There is no confidence setting. It was simply told it would be beaten, so it agreed. That's what LLMs do.

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds

Re: Rolling the Dice

The problem stems from all the marketroid shoutings of how intelligent AI is. And then it turns out there's zero intelligence to it.

Arm muscles into server market – but can't wrestle control from x86 just yet

AI is a huge dumpster. The sooner it bursts the better.

Paul McCartney, Elton John, other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping

Re: Debate?

When I post my comments on US websites, for the past 35 years, I do not use US spellings.

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

Or ...

The old system will not be shut down until the full benefit of replacement has been realised.

Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples, which isn't entirely welcome

Re: ideologically driven and fed by/into Neoliberalist policies

Yep, totally a Trojan Horse. He tore the Labour Party apart and killed PM David Lange.

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: I‘m not entirely convinced

True. Which is why, like with public health campaigns, the goal is to get everyone on board so we all move in the right direction together.

And of course, the very purpose of the counter campaigns is to discourage as many as possible so as to make the effort useless for those that do try.

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels

Thre is a fix for this, and for everything else too

Ban user tracking! Without the huge data gathering of user behaviour these companies will stop spending on AI.

Boeing busted by employee over plans to surveil workers, quickly reverses course

"... a system for managing energy and space usage in selected office areas ..."

The bullshit alerts are firing today. There is super cheap motion sensors plentifully used already for, I don't know, every automatic door opener ever made. Don't need a zillion cameras and hulking "AI" processors for that!

Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI

LMRs maybe?

Maybe those being built in Canada should be called Large Modular Reactors then.

Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

It isn't performance or efficiency that Nvidia has, it is the ecosystem built around CUDA. Just like Apple does with self-cultivated OS for iPhone and Mac. It isn't a performance game, it's the software platform lock-in. M$ does the same with Windoze/MS Office where it can.

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Forth is just cryptic

If you don't have the workings of the dictionary memorised, you're lost. Assembly is a breeze in comparison.

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Ad industry and privacy won't improve without regulations

The idea that Mozilla, or anyone other than law makers, could move the needle on privacy with ads is a complete dream. The very reason why traditional formats (newspapers/network TV) are all dying is simply because there is a competitive advantage when privacy is violated. It's not a level playing field without regulations to make it level.

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

Re: An orderly transition would seem sensible

Given the actual outcome, using such excuses would all sound like upfront laziness with ongoing incompetence ... or outright lying to cover corruption.

An orderly transition would seem sensible

It always surprises me in these type of operations that the old systems are just flat abandoned without any attempt to prove the new system first. I guess these are ample proof of the old adage, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”

The Register takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin

Re: Sold out

It's called a paper launch. Stock is still to arrive at the shops. Intel is doing the same. I'm seeing stock arriving in a week.

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

Re: Squirrel?

Or the wasteful and useless LLM crap gets the plug pulled instead.

Energy exec punts datacenter power options out to long term

Re: I'm all in on datacenter nukes. . .

The only people seeming to be giving a time estimate for fusion is all the "perpetually 20 years" doubters. I don't see news pieces setting any dates.

Flawless!

CISA boss: Makers of insecure software must stop enabling today's cyber villains

The comparisons being made

are against engineering for safety. Where other engineering disciplines have had heavy regulation for many decades, if not centuries, those were for safety rather than security. All the bleating that somehow software engineering has had is easy by not being punished for insecure code is missing the fact that security is not safety, and safety is not security.

Re: None Of It True

And none of those are for safety reasons.

Safety is not security

They are different terms for different purposes. Safety is the protection against unintentional harm to humans. Security is the protection against intentional harm to humans. Engineering for safety is the norm in many practices. Engineering for security is not the norm at all. If someone wants to throw another person off a bridge then there is no substantial protection against it. Just some minor safety barriers for accident reduction.

Lawyers need reminded of this distinction sometimes too.

Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery

Buying every High-NA machine

without any of them earning an income probably hasn't helped the finances.

AGI is on clients' radar but far from reality, says Gartner

IBM Watson anyone?

IBM went through this on a smaller scale well over a decade ago. Goggle has been quietly pouring money into the tech for a similar amount of time. Why anyone thought AI was magically so much better now, surprised me a lot.

What's up with Mozilla buying ad firm Anonym? It's all about 'privacy-centric advertising'

Re: If it looks like bullshit and smells like bullshit

The networks are doing it for one simple reason - It's a competitive advantage over traditional ad methods. This in turn is wiping out the competition.

What is really needed is the top to bottom banning of tracking entirely. This then puts them back on a level playing field.

Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in

Re: Camel and straw

Corporates will be using this to monitor employees. There'll be more "managers" than ever!

OpenAI co-founder to depart ChatGPT

Re: Tulip mania

Not yet. It's a big-ass bubble for sure but the money is very much still flowing.

Speaks nice, presuambly gets his golden handskake

Are real safeties actually a thing? Easy enough to fool from reports I've heard. Ad-hoc would be the term.

I'm thinking the real story more likely a classified military one.

Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again

Kudos to Tobias Mann

Cheers for the informative news piece.

ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders

Re: Kind of predictable

It's not the bureaucrats making all the fuss, nor the decisions. All they do is carry out the orders/laws handed down from on high.

ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client

Three was an IBM linked announcement from last year, of a private/public partnership at a NY State research facility, posted on Anand indicating a likely candidate - https://research.ibm.com/blog/high-na-euv-lithography-albany