The thing about the Deep Learning / Machine Learning flavor of AI is that it has categories of application which are genuinely useful and steps forward, which is vastly more successful than the last 50 years of AI research. That's incredible, but not nearly large enough to really financialize into a hype wave. But instead, we've taken these techniques and built smoke and mirrors like LLMs and image generation that are useful for basically nothing but grifts. We took success and built failure out of it.
It's funny to hear about cloud computing and iphones as the big "successes" of tech. Cloud computing is just someone else's computer that you're beholden to. How is that helpful? The iphone is just "computers got smaller" which they've always done, plus a locked in walled garden approach that leaves you far less in control of your devices. These are both steps backwards.
@@MrKYT-gb8gs its a nontrivial feat that Apple did not accomplish. When people say successes of tech, they very rarely are talking about advances by physicists, ASML, TSMC etc. which are responsible for computers getting smaller. Not to mention that handheld computing happened decades before the iphone. Consider, for example the Psion 3a.
I think 'Don't Be Evil', was like an inside joke. And wasn't some sort of goofy, innocent, starry-eyed sentiment. They knew they were evil from the beginning. Very explicitly. They also knew, as they would, what the reigning happy and optimistic narrative or mythology of what the internet represented. And so it seemed perfect. Yeah, we're evil aright. If only you knew.
I love how they got us hooked with one month free trials no adds need but now it seems for every action you take theres a mandatory add in-between its not Right got us addicted first then they brought the adds people should make money of there service not there adds not mention if you got a good product you don't need all that add time it's really annoying
Yea feels like the internet is just Google RU-vid porn sites and facebook everything feels like it's lacking something not sure what it is community is the closest word to describe it I guess
It will help people generate better (but still crappy) spam, phishing, and misinformation … gee great the only things that we KNOW it can do sucks. We can recognize birds and stuff with a phone and that’s about it.
Ed sure does not know macroeconomics. The high interest rates were responsible for keeping inflation high and preventing a recession. When the Tsy issue is around 60% of GDP or higher (which it is) the government becomes a huge net payer of interest, and that interest income is a massive stimulus, but all demand for zero supply, so also one-to-one inflationary. It was obscenely regressive stimulus too, since all the interest income goes to the top end of town. _Basic income, _*_but only for people who already have money_*_ and in proportion to how much money they already have._ Also, the FED have it all backwards. Raising rates does not do a thing to fix a supply shock event. Hiring people to produce output would fix a supply shock, instead of dolling out bags of interest income to the people who already have money. The central banks around the world were all the same rank idiots slave to a false ideology of neoclassical monetarism: "Oh look, inflation is up and supply chains are broke, let's put people out of work to try fix that, and give rich folks some basic income."
