I’m just some guy, you know.
$3,500 on a toy is not “pretty expensive”, it’s 3 months salary at minimum wage. It’s 7 times as expensive as the Quest 3, which actually has a user base, and 11 times as expensive as the upcoming Quest 3S.
It certainly pays a couple of mortgage payments.
Yeah, sure, if it was an adversary like the U.S. government and not a Russian ally like Elon Musk…
I love this kind of delusional statement.
“Researchers spent tens of billions of dollars, and put decades into research, and now that there is breakthrough progress in applied machine learning, but we should bury all knowledge of it and abandon the entire sector because of vibes.”
Scepticism of AI businesses and hype is perfectly understandable, but you’re not putting this cat back in the bag…
I’ve owned one of those. It’s a piece of shit.
Look, if Excel is the last mile and everyone is properly plugged into a corporate database to pull numbers, then great.
But way too many companies manage everything from a network share full of xlsx files…
I know that actual game mechanics cannot be patented or copyrighted
In America, sure. But these are two Japanese companies…
I’m not an expert on Japanese copyright and patent law, but I don’t have a great outlook for Palworld.
Our wetware neutral networks probably aren’t supposed to engage with synthetic content like this either. In a few years we’re gonna learn that overexposure to AI generated content creates some sort of neurological problem in people, like a real-world “nerve attenuation syndrome” (Johnny Mnemonic).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
347 Mbit/s maximum. (But don’t expect that at 9.9 miles…)
The "WiFi HaLow"name itself indicates lower power usage than traditional Wifi, largely because it uses the 900MHz band instead of the 2.4/5/6GHz bands.
Likewise, it isn’t compatible with existing WiFi client devices that don’t operate at those bands.
So you’re saying that we should be concerned with datacenters more than things like factory farming and oil & gas?
I don’t follow. I need a lot more evidence of harm before I become “very concerned” about datacenters specifically.
Between AI and shitcoin mining, these two “technology branches” already consume more power than all the green power added to the grid combined.
I think you would be shocked if you learned what some other things in our world cost in CO2.
The energy costs of cryptocurrency mining are easy to calculate because the system is extremely transparent. AI is a little muddier, but we know how much big tech is expanding data centers, and we know how many enterprise GPUs Nvidia sells, so we get a decent estimate.
But these things don’t actually do as much damage as compared to other things. Imagine how much energy is used for Gaming PCs and consoles. It’s probably up there with Crypto and AI if you consider all running consoles and PCs, plus all the multiplayer infrastructure. But we don’t have numbers because this is hard to calculate.
And then there’s stuff like personal automobiles, that completely blow these other things out-of-the-water.
I remember when the FediPact people were saying various fediverse instances needed to defederate from Threads because Meta was going to use it to scrape comments…
My brother in Christ, you’re spewing your comments in a million directions with the ActivityPub protocol. They don’t even have to scrape, and defederating them won’t do shit.
Is it though? We can show an AI thousands of hours of something and it can simulate it almost perfectly. All the game mechanics work! It even makes you collect keys and stock up on ammo. For a stable diffusion model that’s pretty profound emergent behavior.
I feel like you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think this has real world applications. This is the kind breakthrough we need for self-driving: the ability to simulate what would happen in real life given a precise current state and a set of fictional inputs.
Doom is a low-graphics game, so it’s definitely easier to simulate, but this method could make the next generation of niche “VidGen” models extremely accurate.
That $13 billion is part of the $44 billion, you don’t add them together.
He spent $31 billion of his own capital, and borrowed $13 billion to cover the rest.
“We have a strap-on hallucination machine at home”
The strap-on hallucination machine at home: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Ganzfeld-Goggles/