Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine

Re: of course

They'd really miss the hats, and so would all of us. It lets us know "A complete MORON is wearing this cap" so we can avoid them.

The EU and UK are being outbid on the global markets by Asiatic countries; witness Japan's contentedness with their purchases from Canadian energy suppliers at FAIR market prices for the products now that some shipping capacity has opened up from Canadian shores. Should the proposed pipelines come to fruition (hopefully only following southern routes; I don't want ANY risks to the pristine northern beaches and their sea life taken for the sake of mere lucre; the world has done quite enough of that in my lifetime. Better to at least isolate any future damages to already damaged parts of the coasts.)

Re: Nuclear conflict

When faced with a vicious Russian government, defending yourself any way possible as Ukraine has done is emphatically not "terrorism". It's what is required to survive the assault by the bigger, better armed, and ruthless attacker.

Had Russia simply respected international borders, all their citizens would be perfectly safe; they have no right to cry "terrorism" when their ILLEGAL assaults are returned in kind. Those Russian bombardments certainly don't distinguish between civilians and military.

Good old NVidia. They'll sell to anybody if they can turn a profit, no matter the consequences - exactly the same as every other American company. It's just a question of whether the potential profits are greater than the potential penalty for doing "business" with someone. Near as I can tell, the only ones getting "the business" are the investors and the regulators.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay

Let's be clear: despite my complaints about LLMs not being even vaguely intelligent, but mere statistical simulations of intelligence, LLMs emphatically do have their uses for things like improving video and video game playback quality through various advanced processing that just can't be done with normal approaches, and similar uses for upscaling and downscaling both audio and video sources. They even have use for extracting and parsing keywords into native language models of exactly what a statement in the user's language translates to as a meaning parse tree, at least syntactically.

But that doesn't make them safe or reliable for things like self-driving vehicles, medical diagnosis, or drug research. They can make suggestions for such things, but because they're based on statistical summaries, they just aren't safe without human approval and constant monitoring, and that includes source code editing and enhancements on both large and small projects, whether single or multi-modular.

421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one

What an absolute cesspool WindBloat 11 is!

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

Re: This won't happen

Because the US Constitution makes it very clear that no more than two terms are allowed - despite the idiot's claim that he's found a way to "get around" that. Most of his "getting around" things involves doing it knowing full well the courts and houses are utter twat-waffles about enforcing the Constitution.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with old technology that does the job; the problems arise when engineers insist on "fixing" something that isn't broken in the first place.

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power

Re: Please don't use the term boffin

Aww, so people who call themselves "Tech Nerds" and "Tech Boffins" etc. are "bad people" because you're offended by the terms? Here's a clue cupcake: the world does not revolve on preventing you from being offended; far from it.

Boffin.

Boffin.

Boffin.

Boffins, Boffins, everywhere.

And you can take that and stuff your "feelings" where the sun don't shine.

These are far more promising developments than are possible with ITER. ITER uses fuel pellets; a Tokamak isn't as "bursty" as a pellet-based system, and produces steadier energy flows. I'm particularly hopeful of these developments because I first saw a laboratory Tokamak at the University of Saskatchewan physics labs way back in 1981 before starting classes in '82 and was told we were "20-30 years away" from fusion. The purple glow was enthralling, but the timescale was way off. Maybe we're finally close to solving the world's energy needs.

Zuck’s Chinese agentic prey escapes, will resume standalone ops

Before anyone can develop and deliver a "Super Intelligence" we first need to deal with the ability to actually understand prompts, build world models, update world models, perform actions on the modelled data, retain the modelled data across sessions, ...

LLMs are far from "intelligent" as they are; they're just statistics based simulations of intelligent answers; the don't actually understand bugger all.

Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back

Re: A wide net, indeed

Bingo. Rule #1: any site that allows content criticizing Der Pumpkin Fuhrer is to be hacked immediately.

Of course #1 on that list will be anyone involved in any form of media piracy, legitimate target or not. The RIAA and MPAA will see to it.

Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon

Nothing like a good old game of Russian Roulette - will the tech bro's rocket go "Boom!" this time or not? You pay your money, you takes your chances, but all you win if you survive is bragging rights that you "saw space" for a few minutes.

The Future is for Billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe

That's rich - Zuckerborg talking about a "Supreme Intelligence" being created when he himself has all the "intelligence" of a squashed rutabaga, given his penchant for dead-on-arrival massive investments that go nowhere....

Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen

So basically not one of these stupid vendors knows enough about securing their own agents to use them safely, yet we're supposed to trust that crap?

China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

Taiwan is only free because the kiss the American's asses instead of China's. They'll never be independent as long as they rely on either nation instead of standing on their own, or catering to other markets in the world like the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa as a whole, and the rest of India and Asia.

They don't need the Americans or the Chinese to succeed on their own. Canada's GDP has grown - only slightly, but Trump is bullshit and threat and we're growing our other markets faster than we're losing the American ones. It's the Americans paying through the nose for Canadian products and services, not us.

Trump and MAGA are financial morons. The only "smart" one is Trump, and the only thing he's "smart" about is how to sell US government backing, support, and tax write-offs for the rich as "beneficial" to society. I'm absolutely stunned that the US is in this situation when Trump clearly tried to have his minions overthrow and reject the duly elected government chosen by the people of the United States over his despotic rule. He should have been in a military cell or before a firing squad after that, not running for election again.

You let MAGA and the Republicans utterly destroy all the ideals and fantasies about what the US represents for the entire world. You are not a "bastion of freedom" - you're a nation of suckers who worship billionaires and the rich buying your government outright to the detriment of all your social programs and supports so the rich can gain even more than they already have. What fools those Americans be, because even their Democrats are a right-wing militaristic party more interested in making threats and invading to "liberate" the resources of the target nations. The claims of "freeing the people" are utter bullshit. And have been for 250 years... it's all propaganda the world is fed by American media and rah-rah braggarts for centuries....

No, unlike a paranoid American, I've had many Chinese-Canadian friends, first generation immigrants who frequently flew home to visit with no fear of some Border Gestapo or ICE throwing them in a cell like any brown person risks when entering the US. None of them told me of anything vaguely like the bullshiit propaganda coming out of the American government other than the government being very detailed about legislation and regulation. And make no mistake, most of the people China people puts to death are a waste of incarceration expenses in the US and Canada and largely guilty of harming society as a whole through drug importation/exportation, etc. Although the Americans claim all the deaths are through "kangaroo courts", the "up for sale" courts in the US and Canada that let the rich buy legal freedom from their crimes is not a model I find enviable.

While the charged should not be presumed guilty, they should be treated as guilty once convicted and a lot more restrictions on appeals put in place. Prisoners will file claims just because they get a free lawyer and are bored anyway with nothing better to do with their time than try to get out, guilty or not.

Re: Not a fan

Your Drumpf is the only dictator I see around. How are those Epstein files coming along?

You AMERICANS can worry all you like about China's purchases; we're glad of the investment. Pity you're so busy kissing your politicians arses, because THEIR only interest is protecting the profits of their donors

Re: Training at Home

Dump and then monetize is likely to bite the Americans in the ass as they so richly deserve; people will only accept monetization if there is a benefit to using their frontier models, and, as you've pointed out, they are less and less necessary as locally run services become more and more capable as the open weights models improve. Why pay for someone to hoover all your data when you can keep it in house?

The Americans are free to continue committing economic suicide. As a Canadian who isn't subject to their insane hatred of all things Chinese, I'm quite free to use their models and will happily do so if appropriate. I have absolutely no love for the greedy people at OpenAI or Anthropic; they can kiss my ass and burn in bankruptcy for all I care.

'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director

What a delusional fool; he's bought into the vendor's propaganda and bullshit and been fooled by a statistical simulation of thinking and understanding that does absolutely nothing of the sort...

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve

More tech bro bullshit going "Boom!"

News at 11:00...

Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death

I was rather suspicious when the pages it said were failing to publish are displayed as perfectly valid HTML from my nginix server. :)

Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm

Let's be honest: absolutely nobody can afford to use Artificial Ignorance for serious work, even when they own the servers!

SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions

There's one benefit to SpaceX spending all those billions on Artificial Ignorance infrastructure - when the bubble bursts (which has already begun), those billions are going to come out of their pockets and, more importantly, Musk's. Hopefully that will be the end of him buying elections for despots and morons like Der Pumpkin Fuhrer. And make no mistake - the only reason Drumpf is in the hot seat is Musk bought the election for him by spending hundreds of millions on advertising and donations. You Americans can blame all your problems on Musk. All of them.

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

As per usual they have absolutely no evidence to prove it they're just trying to protect the revenue of their donors.

The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet

Far from soon enough; far too many billions are being spent on the albatross, and the spending is killing the memory prices for everything in the world. May Anthropic and OpenAI end up bankrupt as soon as humanely possible...

As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK

Yeah, we pitch the crap to our customers for obscene margins, but please don't actually use it, m'kay?

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Shoot the CEO, upper management, and board members and start clean.

Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law

It is worth noting that in Canada, Air Canada had to abide by a ticket sale agreement it didn't like because their AI offered the deal to a live customer in a chat session, who took the deal, and saved a copy of the session in court because it was too good to be true. However, the court sided with the customer that they did not volunteer or request a particular price; the AI offered it and they accepted.

Unlike in the US and some other jurisdictions, you don't get to back out of a contract because your representative "made a mistake." If it was accepted and paid for, it is legally binding here.

Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold

"as profit rises 19-fold"

Chew on that. That is why they don't give a rat's fat patoot about the consumer and performance desktop and small business markets. And it won't change as long as the AI bubble is returning those kind of profit margins to them for giving us all the shaft.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

I thought the wink did that! *LOL*

What? So there's no reason for them other than to take pictures of things and people that don't want them taken. How does rampant voyeurism make someone a pervert? ;)

Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill

Re: re: the "open question"

It has already started to pop. Have you seen how NVidia's stock is nose-diving now that investors realize that all their reported future profits and agreements rely on the AI scam continuing unabated, despite the abject failure of so-called AI to deliver actual productivity gains or any ROI at all for most people who bought into it?

The only ones who seem to really be benefiting much from its deployment are the Altmans, Bezos, and Zuckerborgs that sell the AI "services" themselves.

Open models will kill the chance of NVidia benefiting from those deals, because their customers (OpenAI, Anthropic, et. al.) will be going bankrupt when people realize they can "get it for free" by investing in some local hardware instead of paying thousands of dollars for "tokens."

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

Re: Winning at anything

I'm reminded of Charlie Sheen's idea of "winning" his way into rehab...

Already too late.

Again.

America hasn't "led" the world for some time now. China has outpaced them on development, research, and production, and the disparity is only going to get worse with the budget and education cutback Der Pumpkin Fuhrer imposed on American society.

You are not going to resume leading the world when your average voter has a Grade 4 education nowadays in reality when they aren't being given a "pass" just for showing up.

Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack

Input: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems"

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Edit: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted t^Ho^H ^Hp^Hr^Ho^Hp^He^Hr^Hl^Hy^H ^Hs^He^Hc^Hu^Hr^He^H ^Hs^He^Hn^Hs^Hi^Ht^Hi^Hv^He^H ^Hs^Hy^Hs^Ht^He^Hm^Hs^H"

Response: "proves frontier labs can't be trusted."

> There. Fixed that for you.

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Seig Heil, Mein Fuhrer! We won't interfere with your corporate donors fucking up the civilian power supply, water supply, and infrastructure any more. We'll just bend over like you do and take it up the poop-chute...

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

To be fair, only the American people have consistently heard lies from Republican wankers that the policies the population likes are "socialism" or "communism" because they threaten the unjustified incomes of their billionaire donors.

The fundamental problem is it isn't an issue of a "right wing" or "left wing" LLM in any sense of the word, but one that distills its answers from the common sense of reputable answers on the internet that proved popular.

Is it any surprise that the general public prefers the ideals of socialism and libertarianism rather than put up with the billionaire vision of oligopolies and the financial rape and ruin of the populace to feed their never-satisfied greed?

OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models

Which is, of course, why the likes of Altman and the CEO of NVidia are in a tizzy and want open models blocked from use.

If Altman can't pay for all that compute horsepower he bought on credit, NVidia doesn't get paid, and NVidia stock takes a nosedive not seen since the bank failures 20 years ago, and Altman and his greedy cesspool go bankrupt. The same applies across the board.

The powerful have always feared the intelligent. They can't be fooled into believing there are benefits to blocking Chinese open technology from the US for anyone except the billionaires that are all too happy to rape you and your wallet for all you used to be worth...

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

Damned would-be billionaires and billionaires. May they all die a slow and painful death as soon as possible...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update

Microsquishy: "We can screw up anything, even if it isn't our system affected. We're absolute masters of disaster."

The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago

How much does Boeing pay you to shill for them? Or do you work for them? I see no other reasons for defending their failures.

I like the explanation for why they failed you gave, though that doesn't deny their aircraft failures. I think it has more to do with corporate culture and mismanagement myself.

Boeing had a history of aircraft manufacturing defects and crashes for over a decade before they started wasting those billions; they're just a "preferred status" Military Industrial Complex Supplier that the government wants to support.

Guess they shouldn't have wasted all those billions on Boeing failures.

Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills

Yes, because every profit hungry corporation out to maximize their returns is going to stop increasing prices because someone "asked", even if it IS Der Pumpkin Fuhrer doing the asking!

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Re: Full AI communism

What any American means when they scream about "communism" and "socialism" is "damned foreigners stealing 'our' money and daring not to worship The Almighty US Dollar." And make no mistake, many people worship money with a level of fanaticism that even the most hard-core religious zealot would be hard-pressed to match.

Here's a clue for America: You do NOT have some innate right to rape the world for your own benefits. Not by a long shot, nuclear threats or no.