I don’t buy it. I really do think this is just a weird form of advertising. Like, “WHOA THIS AI IS GONNA KILL US?! I wanna subscribe to see how powerful it is!”
Absolute bologna. Just total hogwash. I mean full on horserubbish!
Maybe it’ll just kill the billionaires?
Or itself. What if we get AGI finally and the first thing it does is delete itself?
We’re basically already at a point where most enterprise documentation is written partly or entirely by AI, and then read mostly by AI. Eventually true understanding of e.g. how to build a docker-compose file will be genuinely rare. And they want to apply that model to everything.
The risk isn’t that GAI will decide, in an Asmovian sense, that the best way to make peace on earth is to kill us all, or that to achieve it’s manufacturing quota it must transmute all matter in the universe I to paperclips. The real risk is that the MBA-wielding professional-managerial class will not be able to resist the siren song of demolishing labor with something that works “well enough.” Eventually they’re going to put it in charge of something critical like ATC or dam control or the electrical grid.
Humans, by our nature, are diverse, and one fuck up rarely cascades through the entire global system. We make small fuck ups and train each other. AI “learns” by observing and probabilistically imitating, and one model could be deployed in a thousand places and screw up the exact same way.
tldr ai won’t kill us, our bosses will once Anthropic wines and dines them
Nah, everything is going to be fine. And if it isn’t? I’ll lie to myself to be happy.
the best way to make sure everything is some flavor of fine is to keep learning new practical skills. I got pretty doomery there. But the other technological trend that can’t really be stopped is decentralization. Communities can, and will continue to be able, to grow their own food and produce their own power. Knowing how to make thst stuff happen is going to be incredibly important in the rest of the 21st century
Iphone equipped with AI…
You could always fold an iPhone. It’s just, you could only do it once
You could fold it way more than once. A bit less crunch each time.
To be fair, you can do anything once
No, I can’t climb Mt. Everest.
If you aren’t dead, you haven’t tried yet.
That feature debuted on the iPhone 6 IIRC.
All of it is bullshit to try and get a bailout from the government and a monopoly.
Apple being shit at AI might actually be a blessing. When the bubble pops, they won’t have lost so much, and until then they can get AI companies to pay to be the Siri model (not sure if that’s what they are actually doing though).
This is literally Apple’s business model. It’s intentional. They are intentionally focused on slow sustained growth rather than the incredibly volitile BS other tech companies chase. Late to the game? Nobody cares. Something is a flop? They weather it. The butterfly keyboard was a disaster for Apple and it didn’t hurt them at all. They can take the blow if then the occasional flop because their risks are lower and planned out. They let everyone else spin their wheels while they iterate their designs based on what others failed at.
The M-series chips going gangbusters on AI is no coincidence, but at the same time, if the buyer doesn’t care about AI, that unified memory benefits them in other ways anyway. Because they planned out everything.
Which makes the Apple mouse that much more baffling.
I think Apple could do AI as well as everyone else. They just recognized that everyone else is doing it badly because there’s no good way to do it so they backed out.
I think I agree with this. When you look at what apple does, they take their time and wait to make sure the UX is good. Recently, we see it with the iPhone duo where they waited to have a product that looks nice, isn’t too bulky and they reworked the UI to make sure the UX is good. They are not the type to dive head first into the AI slop, it’s not their type. But internally, I’m sure they are experimenting and trying to polish the features for a good UX.
I personnaly dislike Apple for other reasons, but I must give credit where credit is due. It is imo a good philosophy that I could get behind, but in Apple’s case, there are too many red flags.
I agree!
Honestly. I’m ok with this.
Google: Fix google fucking drive. Stop this AI shit and put the billions of dollars into making your products basically functional.
At this point, anyone disappointed by Google has self inflicted wounds. Unless your employer forces you to use it, there’s really no excuse to not Degoogle.
I think of all the unified tech ecosystems, Apple is hands down the best but Google is still the best non-Apple option. The only other option I think is Microsoft, and I would rather drown in burning gasoline than go back to anything Microsoft touches.
Obviously the best option is to host your own stuff through open source, which I am doing, but it’s taking time, it’s a lot of work to keep up with. Google gives me a bunch of barely passable tools accessible from anything with an internet connection.
I did degoogle for browser and search though. Firefox and Kagi makes the internet almost tolerable.
What’s the best alternative to Google Drive?
WireGuard VPN to a Linux box in your basement.
I keep a 1tb usb drive in my ass at all times
Do you keep the cord hanging out or do you go fishing every time you need a file?
I have one with a flared base
Like a fucking professional. Props.
That’s rookie numbers
Not all of us have room for multiple 1tb drives.
That’s why you settle for a single 8 TB 3.5 inch disc. It just has a better value.
3.5 inch drive might fit better, but what about micro sd cards though. Are we up to super high capacity on those yet, my ass might appreciate it better.
Just need affordable storage
i haven’t used it at the same scale as gdrive, but you could check out proton. the subscription isn’t too bad and you can roll in VPN also
The best that I’m aware of that’s almost exactly the same and not the different (but better options already said): mega.io
One up for that. Espexially that the service was built out of pettyness lol.
Home NAS
Do you want best or easiest? Could get Proton drive if you want something cloud based.
I guess cloud based until I can find reasonably priced home storage.
I have Nextcloud running on my home server, hooked up to a 2tb drive. It’s kind of a pain the ass to have to maintain, but less of a pain in the ass than relying on Google.
rsync
GoogleDrive has always been hot garbage and now it’s just glazed hot garbage. Best to just leave unless you’re forced to use it by your employer.
you can mount google drive as swap. what other provider allows you to do that?
Fixing the products and services does not increase the shareholder value.
AI is a tool to do mass layoffs without making your stocks devalue. What happens after all the major companies do mass layoffs? Not a question investors are interested in, so it must be an externality with no barring on economics.
I just don’t think investors see the point of the American consumer market.
This is the best explanation of the real reason for the glorified search engine I’ve heard yet
Bullshit
Bullshit
Good for you. I still don’t care.
