Some IT guy, IDK.
This is the way.
You engage in the economy of helping people to move stuff. One person has a dolly, another has a truck, they come, they move the thing, you pay in pizza and at least one IOU of “I’ll be there for you next time”.
When the time comes you are enlisted, you go, you help, you recieve pizza.
The cycle continues.
This is the way.
This is the only way.
Looks a lot like a straw man to me.
I don’t hate all LLMs/ML models/“AI”.
I also don’t use them. I also don’t see a need to use them.
I work in tech and these “AI” things are little more than averaging the most common replies to a given input. Any question that’s been asked, especially those that are asked often, is well suited for an LLM chat bot. That’s good if you want a high level overview of a topic that you don’t know much about. If you want accuracy, you’ll need to dig a bit more, but overall, you’ll get a relatively good idea of the answer you’re looking for. That’s enough for most people.
I’m crazy. I like to deeply understand everything, so the high level, lack of detail, finesse, and accuracy of LLM chat bots is unacceptable for me, so I trend towards doing my own research. If I use an LLM at all, it’s just an augmented search engine. I’m more interested in its references than its response.
There’s also something to be said about making short clips of impossible things that some smaller YouTubers are using “AI” models for. Things that would take a long time for a graphics artist to create, and an editor to composite. Stuff that a small time YouTuber can’t really afford, but they can get good enough but clearly “AI” visuals to spice things up in their videos. The AI is just for display during transitions, it doesn’t affect the content being made in any meaningful way. I’ve seen Paul Hibbert do this a lot and his production team from what I know is basically him and his wife. I’m not even sure if he has an editor, or if he does it himself. He’ll go from a live shot of him talking about a product, do an AI transition, to another live shot of him continuing his discussion. Rather than a cut, or some kind of fade, wipe, or other simplistic transition, the generated images are of him, and only to add visual flavor. He also does some AI generated music stuff, which again, fair. He’s not exactly a musician, and unless he has the money to hire a musician, he either uses AI for the funny transition music or he uses an unrelated and unlicensed (or open licensed) song… It just adds flavor to his content, it builds on what he’s creating, it doesn’t shape what he’s creating. All of his scripts sound genuine, not AI created, so everything should be fine.
That, to me, is a good use of AI as a tool.
There’s too many bad examples for me to really cover them in any detail, but I’m sure everyone has seen the AI generated person being animated by AI, reading an AI generated script, using an AI generated voice sample. Even if the original source material is legit, is buried under so many layers of slop that I can’t bear to watch it.
For me, it entirely depends on what he’s using it for. It’s entirely not about the fact that he uses it. I’ll have to dig into it a bit to see what he’s doing, but from the comments I’ve read so far, it seems like the answer to what he’s using it for, is yes. He’s using it for everything… Not ideal.
some AI coprocessors, you’re right. they can’t be used.
Most of what nVidia is offering, while lacking display outputs, can still be used for gaming/VDI/vGPU use, and in general aren’t particularly bad at it, usually quite the opposite. might take a bit of work to get them going, and nVidia hasn’t made it easy with their whole licensing thing. Putting aside the challenges, it’s usually possible to adapt their SXM datacenter GPU modules to work with more common frameworks like PCIe, and then utilize those as virtual GPUs in a virtual desktop. This is not dissimilar to what they’re doing with the geforce now platform.
The big benefit of the chips is that they come with loads of memory, so cutting them up as a vGPU is actually a really optimal use-case. Most games are memory limited, which is to say they need more memory than most GPUs have, so the limit in performance is from the memory limitations, not the graphics processing limitations.
The AI processors that are GPU based, like almost everything that nvidia is using, can mostly be repurposed, but those that are ML-only, like AI coprocessors that show up in CPUs like the AI optimized CPUs from AMD and Intel, can’t really be re-used, but they’re usually not released as a standalone product. Those may still be able to perform physics processing offloads… so maybe not useless? I’m not sure.
it’s called “Everybody’s Free”
Listen, I work IT at a managed service provider, which means I see a dozen + small to medium business environments daily.
The number of users that I know of, out of the hundreds or thousands that I support, who are actively using “AI” continually to do their jobs… Well, I can likely count them on one hand
There’s a bunch that use whatever free tool they are allowed to access. Which kind of flies under the radar for me, but I still don’t think you’re dealing with double-digit percentages of people using “AI” that actually spend any money on it.
And these are business users, who work at businesses with rather deep pockets at times…
People are not buying the product. “AI” in the business world, isn’t making any money. So from what I’ve seen, this is less a matter of if, and more a matter of when and how bad.
As a tech person, I am not threatened by AI. It can’t do my job. Also, I’m the one who fixes it when things go wrong. And the only thing I’m looking forward to is being able to pick up cheap RAM, and storage when this all comes crashing down as AI companies cash out and liquidate their inventory. Maybe I can pick up a cheap AI server and repurpose it to be a 3D/gaming virtual desktop, so when my friends come over with their cheap laptops and on board graphics for a LAN party, I can just provision them a virtual gaming computer and we can go ham…
I’m going to save my sheckles until then…
I have limited experience with the market but I see it this way: anyone with AI holdings should liquidate at their earliest convenience. I don’t think they’ll be keeping up this charade for a lot longer. Anyone who has tech holdings, either cash out, or be prepared to have that money held up for a while because it will take a long time for the prices to recover, and unless you want to cash out at a loss, you’re going to be holding for a long time. Everyone else, hold onto your butts. Probably everything will probably dip when the fecal matter hits the rotary air movement device. Non tech areas of the market should recover pretty quickly, so meh?
This is obvious to me that the whole thing has failed. That realization hasn’t hit execs yet.
Aches and pains! Enjoy!
Are we supposed to get a second time through our 20s? If so, I got ripped off man.
43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn’t shaping up to be any less crazy.
If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that “song” very well. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I’ve gotten older, the advice in that “song” has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.
Fair enough. Have a nice day.
If you can’t get a job in your field with a graduate degree, why does anyone think that if you get a master’s, suddenly the jobs will appear?
Usually, you need a lot of less skilled workers, and as you go up in skill, the demand for the numbers of workers goes down. So getting something more advanced/specialized may actually shrink your pool of options.
Plus, people with entry jobs with graduate degrees are more likely to shift jobs because someone is offering a higher skill position with more pay, so entry jobs should become available more frequently. In contrast, highly specialised jobs requiring the masters degree and whatnot will have some quadragenarian holding it as a salaried/tenured employee.
The first charger I got didn’t, and I’m pretty sure it was also a fake. The second one I got can actually recondition my battery…
There’s a whole underlying system with the impres series of batteries and Chargers to keep everything in top condition for as long as possible.
Well, even their chargers have firmware, and you need a crazy rj11 to serial cable to update the damned things.
Yeah, the radios themselves can be completely locked down or completely open. It’s entirely up to the technician programming and administrating them.
The e series is a bit more advanced, they can do OTA programming, both on UHF, and over Wi-Fi. I like the capacity systems they put together. As far as I can tell, it basically aggregates several frequencies, and time slots (DMR style) into a single system, and that can work across repeater boxes, antenna locations, etc. If you have deep enough pockets you can have a coordinated grid of repeaters across a very large geographical area.
It’s all very cool, and to add to that, any wifi capable units can actually communicate to the system using a wave server which is entirely IP based and works over Wi-Fi. So the radio can basically “roam” from comms over Wi-Fi, to comms over UHF. I can see that being helpful in situations where you have shielded or otherwise difficult to cover areas (by UHF) where you have/need Wi-Fi anyways. Think of a radiology department in a hospital… So much shielding that it would be nearly impossible to actually cover the area with repeaters, but IT needs to put in Ethernet and WiFi anyways, so you can just have the radios piggy back on that.
All of this is transparent to the users. In addition, the radios can check in with their GPS position (basic aprs-like functions), and it can all be tracked by a central console that directly connects to the capacity plus system over the network.
And this is just the XPR series, the APX have a lot crazier stuff because those are used by law enforcement.
You can make the front panel usage of the service almost as complicated or as simple as you want.
I’m just going to say this: As heat related deaths go up, these go down: https://health-infobase.canada.ca/injuries/cold-related/#cold-related-deaths
yes. it is being tracked. Yes, people take it seriously.
this whole discussion thread is a mess. I have no idea what anyone is so upset about. None of this is important enough for us to waste our time on.
OP, you have an opinion, cool, good for you. If you want to leave, then go. Nobody is forcing you to be here, post here, or stay here in any way, shape, nor form. Unless you’re incarcerated, which is a whole other discussion. Don’t let the door hit you in the backside on your way out.
The entire post seems like ragebait, and people are falling for it. Bro. If you knew anything about Nazi’s and how they actually acted towards people, bullying them right to their faces and smugly laughing to themselves while you writhed in pain and anger, you would understand how much worse Nazi’s are than what we deal with. Do we suck sometimes? sure. we need to improve, a lot. Does that make us Nazi’s? not even slightly. If you’re Turkish, and you’ve been to, or are living in Canada, if we were the Nazi’s you claim us to be, then you would be in a camp, waiting for your turn in the chamber. I’m unaware of any point in history where Canada has committed such horrific and blatant war crimes, anywhere, against anybody.
Quit your BS.
The recording industry did.
Who pirates music anymore. Everyone has one of the streaming services for it, because they all have functionally all of the music. There’s no exclusive releases on one platform or another.
Well, maybe there is, I haven’t looked in a while. Maybe they’re enshitifying that too.
Somehow the TV/movie shit heads can’t figure the same thing out.
Fun fact, since November 1998, there’s has always been a small number of humans that do not live on earth.
The international space station was launched November 20th, 1998, and has been continually manned during it’s entire service. So there’s always been a few humans living in space. Less than 100% of all humans that we know of, live on earth.
Enjoyment is not in the act itself. Enjoyment comes from the appreciation of your fellow citizen who needed a thing moved that they were unable to move without help… And pizza.
I don’t find it uncomfortable. You’re there to do a job, you do it, you get your pizza and the appreciation of your fellow human, you go home.
You’re there for a purpose. People want you there for that purpose. You might not be good at it, but you’re there and that’s the important part. At the end of the day, the thing is done.
It’s a social contract, and it’s not exclusive to guys.