Posts by Jonjonz 280 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Apr 2010
Actually, back then you could buy for half the price a Datapoint machine that did word-processing, accounting, etc. and could network fully with then current enterprise computer systems, the Lisa could only do really basic terminal emulation.
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/datapoint-2200-father-of-the-personal-computer/600
At the same time you could get a Datapoint desktop machine that could network, do accounting, word processing, email, all for around $5k. In 1982 that kind of capability was meant for secretaries and data input staff. No one then was going to spend the price of a new sedan on secretaries and data input plebs.
Get elected spouting rants about how everything is the fault of the most powerless people in the world and government. Once elected start selling bitcoins and gold with the pitch that the government is going to fail, so you better stock up now. Make sure government fails and retire even richer to your private enclaves.
The whole purpose of these built in AI processors it to reduce the friction on their surveillance of you. The AI chip can analyze and summarize large quantities of subservience data on you and then phone home that summary, rather than the time consuming and more costly, sending the whole of the data and using up bandwidth.
The are struggling to show any concrete benefit to the customer, as that is not the goal of the chips.
Our Tech Bro overlords have been slurping PC surveillance for years, the NPU make life easier for that. The NPU eats that data, analyzes it, and sends the digest report back to the tech bros. This way they can gather more data, but only have to transmit the filtered, categorized and summarized cream back to them.
No doubt the NPU, to function fully for its supposed consumer benefits, will also serve as a conduit front end to assist with making cloud based solutions preferable to native solutions, further bringing all PC use into the cloud where you pay rent and own no software that operates independently on the PC.
The sh*t is about to hit the fan, all those robots and AI enhanced robots have allready been made, under Biden, but kept in storehouses as rolling them out in mass would cause social upheaval a Democratic admin will take steps to allievate,
Now with a stongman who is extremely anti-labor and his loyalists set to controll all three branches of government, the roll out of robots and AI knowledge workers will become a flood, and any social unrest will be redirected towards the chosen strawman of minorities, immiggrants, and anyone who publicly does not agree with the party line.
so accordin to the incoming administration, some shock and belt tightening is in order as US policy shifts to penalizing efforts on net zero and rewarding energy management soley of cost. Guess who can afford more power than you, and be happy getting priced out of energy, no imposed restrictions, your free to freeze if you can't out bid the oligarchs.
Crazed luny running irresponsible media venture now hallucinating visions of turning around an all ready sinking ship.
It's like the captain of the Titanic, ordering crew to leave all bulkheads open, while telegraphing the world that nothing is wrong, we will be in port soon.
One manager tasked with hiring 1000 staff in a month. You wish.
Maybe opening a new plant, but then there would be more than enough managers available.
Using AI in hiring is business shooting themselves in the foot.
Until you can trust AI to mow your lawn without the aid of electronic guides, it is not ready for prime time.
