Not just 20 extra people. I’m seeing a funny trend in my company where managers decide to get into vibe coding and they get super excited at getting something somewhat functional running, so now they’ve been presenting “their work” and expecting developers to merge their heaping trash in. That’ll require quite a few more people.

Europe could help by muzzling their rabid dog israel.

The consumer market is starved for competition. I hope they upend the memory market and then go on to upend the GPU market as well as any other consumer market that gets the bright idea of artificially AI constraining their supplies. Companies threaten consumers with higher prices and labor with layoffs. Well I’ll threaten them back with buying Chinese goods. Won’t that undermine my own job? That was already under threat by the CEO!

I’m scratching my head wondering how we haven’t had an official recession™ yet, but maybe it’s because the rich haven’t quite put everything in place to leave everyone else holding the stinky bag. Maybe that’ll come with the AI company IPOs and private equity inclusions into pension and retirement investment accounts.

I wish there were more plug-in hybrids. I know there’s added complexity in the mechanics, but I’ve been enjoying 99+% electric driving for almost 10 years now and I feel like more would be willing to try it out if they had that “just in case” gas backup instead of having to take a full plunge all at once. They may find that they don’t need that extended range as much as they’d think.

It depends on what you consider worse. Deepseek will outright refuse to answer a question, but other models will happily answer with poisoned data.

See for example, grok translations of neutral questions about israel completely changing the questions: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXpK0BvFOUn/

and israel investing in influencing the output of chatgpt: https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/rj00kxqzaxx

Both are forms of censorship and both are bad, but personally I’d rather an AI shut up than slip in misinformation. If someone is going to take AI at its word (which people shouldn’t do, but you know how people are) then the misinformation will be taken as truth, but a message saying “I can’t discuss such things” will make someone turn elsewhere for answers.

Now ask western models about israel.

but without that “waste of effort” they wouldn’t have gotten that long term relationship or marriage.

Chatgpt came out in late 2022. Are you arguing that because the AI bubble didn’t pop yet that it’s not a bubble? The internet persisted but that doesn’t mean the dot-com boom wasn’t a bubble.