Posts by MikeLivingstone

Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful

Anthropic needs eliminating by Reddit

Anthropic has been overtly stealing data. They should be fined $10bn and closed down.

American science put on starvation diet

US Researchers would be welcome in the UK

The UK is massive in research; we were poor at creating global firms from our discoveries, but that is changing.

US researchers would easily fit in here, and the City of London is now ready to invest.

Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI

Take Anthropic and openAI to the cleaners

These AI language models have no real value as their outputs are unreliable and reduce productivity.

I believe Anthropic should be found liable to Reddit for at least $10bn, and OpenAI should owe the New York Times at least $50bn for content theft.

The CEOs of LLM firms should also face Bernie Madoff style prison sentences.

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

The data storage companies are in part to blame

All I keep hearing from data storage companies is that you need to keep and store all your data, when in fact it needs properly managing and curating.

Just dumping garbage data in a data lake is a waste of money and will just produce worse results over time.

In the worst scenario, if casual users of social media just keep posting GenAI Slop, what do people think will end up being used for model training?

Much GenAI really is dead and a complete waste of time an money. People should just focus on narrow enterprise use cases where there are known required outputs.

If your storage vendor says you need tens of Petabytes to store GenAI output, tell them to go away.

Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years

Re: National security

Bottom line should be that the chief exec gets fired if any breach occurs.

IT vendors should be named and shamed if there was a vulnerability

It's always the public body or company that takes the public blame, but there should be a duty to report compromised technology or failing security products/services.

OpenAI drafts Instacart boss as CEO of Apps to lure in the normies

OpenAI is a joke

Why don't they just admit that ChatGPT etc just wastes time and reduce productivity. All these models do is regurgitate old content, and if people use them and stop actually thinking, everything will stagnate.

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Copilot is a pain

Agree with the article 100%

Copilot is a) ineffective b) pops up when you don't want it c) saps productivity.

The only way they could make it worse would be to front end it with Clippy.

CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades

This is a huge bubble. Coreweave's model is unviable. NVIDIA funding used to buy NVIDIA GPUs, then leveraged to borrow cash. Hourly GPU rental charges plunging 75%. Some non free market income via Azure credits not reflecting real customers whilst Microsoft is cutting back on AI datacenters.

Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators

File Systems too

It's not just the DeepSeek LLM, there is also Fire Flyer File System (3FS), this will kill off overpriced storage platforms for AI training

Running hot? Server shipments forecast to cool in 2025

Hyperscale data storage will also flop in 2025

The other side of the AI coin has been the data boom. However, people seem to have learned once again that quality is more important than quantity.

The GPUaaS vendors have overbought both compute and storage, and will slow down this year, having overpaid NVIDIA and seeing their hourly rates plunge by 75%.

Sensible AI adoption will see enterprises using their own data on smaller scale platforms with pretrained / better distilled models.

This will be fine for the Pures and NetApps of the world, but will certainly kill off some of the Storage IPO hopefuls.

UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

Governments worldwide seem to be on this path

Looking at the rest of the world, the UK Government is just following suit.

The trouble is, AI has become a giant Ponzi scheme. Just look at how some of the GPU-as-a-Service providers are doing with 75 percent price plunges on hourly rental having paid NVIDIA full whack. Now people are moving to smaller more manageable distilled models and agents, and so running the latest high-end GPUs and storing vast quantities of data is proving unnecessary. Quite a lot of the firms in this ecosystem are rushing to IPO as they know they will be worthless once the hype burns out.

Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren't buying it – yet

These AI features are not remotely useful, other than being a search alternative.

I get they can generate a template for code, but it still needs tweaking and was probably available of GitHub (whose IP BTW?).

Also for written correspondence and business plans needing specificity, it is absolutely hopeless and just wastes people time.

I my opinion, using CoPilot for detailed writing reduces productivity by about 40%. A desire to use CoPilot or ChatGPT in my mind is a sign of low IQ.

Interesting to see so many CEOs hoodwinked by it.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

Apple stifles innovation with naff products

Apple's products have been getting worse for the last decade. I unfortunately have been issued a Mac for work and it rubbish compared against a Lenovo Carbon running Ubuntu. I've recently ditched my private iPhone for a Samsung and it is much better. Just waiting to change my work phone, where I'll do the same.

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

I assume this was running on Isilon

Dell's data storage designs are extremely out of date.

The NHS and Police has a load of this insecure Isilon vintage storage, no wonder they get hacked so often, even Dell can't keep things secure.

Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government

Government - cloud first

Officials left their brains behind - chanting cloud first.

US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data

License fees should be due

The providers of these models should have to pay an annual copyright royalty for useage of any content.

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Re: The Unacceptable

Nothing proven about these solutions, right now there millions of SaaS silos that can't interoperate correctly across Government.

SaaS is stupidity too.

AI chip biz Graphcore seeks capital to remain going concern

Similar fate for most AI Chip startups

The AI chip startup space is littered with firms with unusable architectures - mainly down to inadequate software stacks. NVIDIA has most of the cards, and the only ones who can compete and build their own chips are the hyperscalers - who also have developers en mass and loads of data to train the models.

Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86

Think this announcement has just killed all the other AI Chip startups!

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

Sun Workstations are things of beauty

Well I'd never think a Sun Workstation was some old piece of junk. They are very collectible.

Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

We are about to hit the era of organisations being digitally racist. Either too little data causing false positives, or data with a historical poverty bias built in against certainty ethnicities informing financial decisions.

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop

Lenovo Carbon X1s are awesome

I've always preferred these, my current job has some ridiculous Macbook Pro 16", its too big to travel with and is clunky on the software front. I did buy myself and X1, and it is setup for dual boot, W11 and Ubuntu - totally awesome.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence

Soon to hear from 10,000 lawyers

ChatGPT is doing nothing more than replaying and combining billions of previously ingested examples using clever statistical classification.

It's is nothing more than a giant piracy engine. Does ChatGPT actually stand for Content Heist Attribution Theft General Piracy Tool?

OpenAI is going to have to answer to thousands of lawyers

ChatGPT is doing nothing more than replaying and combining billions of previously ingested examples using clever statistical classification.

It's is nothing more than a giant piracy engine. Does ChatGPT actually stand for Content Heist Attribution Theft General Piracy Tool?

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

And our idiot Government want to join the cloud journey

Yes, cloud is now revealed as a giant ripoff.

So of course the UK Government now has idiot departmental CTOs parroting that they are moving to the cloud without knowing what that really means.

Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080

NVIDIA is slowly dying. They are are having yield issues and are putting out rubbish products to plug the gap.

Don't buy anytyfrom NVIDIA, there are loads of better alternatives.

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Thérèse Coffey needs to follow Jacob Rees-Mogg's example and ban Palantir like he banned Bain.

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

A scandal in the making!!!

This approach is just repeating the NHS' bad old mistakes and seems to support the ongoing lobbyists revolving door, whilst locking in NHS structural inefficiency.

It is also worth noting that Palantir's Technology is out of date, and really they should be excluded from the process for trying to circumvent it by hiring.

Patients will die if the NHS doesn't reform its data handling and analysis processes. Today too much narrow focus is placed on the specialisms rather than a holistic approach with patient centric medicine. Modern analytics and AI can reveal new insights, but again the adoption of this is slow.

IDC: Public clouds to surpass non-cloud spending this year

Isn't this an April fool?

I'm see more organisations leaving cloud due to obfuscated price hikes and poor quality of service.

Nvidia releases $1,999, 8K-capable GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GPU

Who can actually see the 8k benefit ?

This really has to be peak GPU.

I have 32 inch 4k monitor, loads of real estate on it and I can't actually see the pixelation. This is why NVIDIA is diverting to DPUs, this is the last generation of non commodity graphics cards. We also know using GPUs fot AI is too difficult for most,, this feells like a last stab at Graphics before the DPU and Omniverse dream.

How Nvidia is overcoming slowdown issues in GPU clusters

Don't even bother trying to get an H100

NVIDIA is all out of stock for A100/H100, you won't be able to get one for 12 months minimum and the software will take 12 months more to work. They have pre-announced this early to get buyers to hold off and not investigate other options. I can't take NVIDIA seriously anymore!

The DPU is also designed to kill off storage vendors.

£5bn up for grabs in UK govt G-Cloud 13 framework

Boring cloud means UK needs to invest in innovation

This is not great news for the UK tech sector.

The Government must invest in its research facilities, more cash is needed for nation supercomputing, AI and Quantum.

Russia scrambles to bootstrap HPC clusters with native tech

Supercomputer parts the way to hit Putin

What many probably don't realise is that a lot of these powerful gpu enabled systems in Russia are being used to spy on the population - watch out for dual purpose technology. I also read on a very 'informative' forum that the Vlad Putin we see at the end of the long table isn't the real Vlad Plutin, and is actually a hologram controlled by the Sberbank computer.....clearly Skynet has taken over.

US trade watchdog opposes Nvidia's Arm buy, mostly over fears about datacentre innovation

Re: This is Silly... There is plenty of competition in the CPU space

It isn't silly, it makes sense.

Firstly it is bad for the GPU market, as NVIDIA may squeeze Intel and AMD in that area, as they might prefer their own CPU.

Secondly it may restrict long term innovation in areas such as AI. NVIDIA GPUs are clearly substandard for this purpose, and so they shouldn't be allowed to take dominance via blatant commercial piratering.

SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs

This is to replace soon to die peripherals like GPUs

NVIDIA kicked off this trend with their DPU and it makes sense for Intel and certainly Cisco to join in. At a workload level as this is an increasing DC overhead workload, but it also makes sense from a business continuation standpoint for NVIDIA. It is no secret, but GPUs probably won't exist ten years from now, as really we do not need bigger monitors at higher resolution. May be 8k in some cases, but my 32 inch 4k is already more than I need and can usefully see, at 8k it would either be 64" or the pixels woud become smaller giving no benefit. GPUs will just get built into CPUs again, hence the interest in ARM and why NVIDIA needs DPUs. AI won't cut it for NVIDIA, the specialist vendors have superior technology and Gus fail at scale

GPU makers increasingly disengage from crypto miners

Also seem to be dropping AI

I've noticed NVIDIA seems to be dropping focus on AI too, mainly in favour of this OMNIVERSE concept. I guess this makes sense, as OMNIVERSE drives graphics and data processing at volume, whereas scaling AI is rather flakey on NVIDIA.

Nvidia open to third parties making custom silicon tuned for CUDA applications

Who wants to use CUDA?

CUDA is awful and GPU memory management is worse.

Really NVIDIA GPUs are a dead end technology.

ARM has great mobile GPUs and Intel/AMD are doing a great job. It really is time to stop buying NVIDIA cards, they are wasteful of power and have the worst programming environment. Any CTO allowing them should be fired.

Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids

I thought this was to get away from the Drug References?

Meta = Methamphetamine

Facebook = Off your face book

Whatsapp = What's up you nose

Instagram = Instant gram of coke

Upcoming Intel GPU to be compatible with Arm

Nvidia needs taking down a peg

This is good news. Also Intel has a good capability to integrate graphics into processors, so perhaps some firms will respond with Arm chips with integrated Intel GPUs in yine. That said Arm also has some great mobile GPUs. This type of innovation is definitely a reason to block Nvidia taking Arm over. I suspect overtime Nvidia and their expensive and energy inefficient devices will become less relevant.

Megachips or decoupled approach? AI chip design companies accounting for operating costs

Some of the startups have looked at Software.

Yes, I take the point about the chip companies not looking at software. That said, I recently met SambaNova at the AI Summit in London. They were very much talking about the software they support and really leading with their pre-enabled AI models. The framework support for Tensorflow and PyTorch also seems great.

Nvidia launches Cambridge-1, UK's most powerful supercomputer, in Arm's neighbourhood

$40m on a render farm

No one this system was intended for is using it properly.

I am at one of the originally named pharmas and we aren't allowed to use the system due having secure data requirements. I've only seen one output which seems to look like render jobs, $40m is a lot for a graphics card!

UK's competition regulator fires red flare over Nvidia's $40bn Arm takeover deal

NVIDIA needs breaking up

NVIDIA is fast becoming the new Intel and really needs breaking up. To make matters worse, they also funded a pork barrel supercomputer project in the UK near Cambridge so they could win UK Government plaudits. As far as I am aware no useful science has been done on that service, just some AI Graphics. Real scientists would do better working with the University. A real pro-British Politician would do better blocking this deal and help ARM float on the LSE.

Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative

Using GPUs is painful

NVIDIA has a hopeless ecosystem and essentially unprogrammable hardware. Don't waste money on GPUs for AI workloads, the memory aspects are a nightmare. You are way better off looking at some of the new AI startups with AI specific hardware and PyTorch support. Ignore NVIDIA, they don't make AI platforms, they just loosely join GPUs with wet string.

Windows 11: What we like and don't like about Microsoft's operating system so far

Can't they just drop the GUI and boot to powershell

Powershell is by far the best thing to come from Microsoft!

The Ubuntu Terminal is also very useful!!

What Microsoft's Windows 11 will probably look like

Won't it be a GUI on Ubuntu?

What with WSL, why not go the whole hog, or indeed Hirsute Hippo!

Bless you: Yep, it's IBM's new name for tech services spinoff and totally not a hayfever medicine

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150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

How do they verify the restore is correct and not tampered with?

Given that the police and courts are held to standards of evidence, I'd suggest that all the records deleted are now invalid and should not be restored.