Is the CIA just picking their covers out of a hat now?
jrs100000
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But they do. Lots of crap has “AI powered” plastered on the investor prospectus with no real world application. The worst Ive seen has been targeted at audiences that wernt burned by .com, such as in China, but even in the US youll have a hard time finding a startup that doesnt incorporate AI in some way.
It would be pretty unusual for a company on the scale of Facebook or Microsoft to go under due to a bubble like this, although it is slightly possible they might slip down a tier in the shuffle. Its more likely well see lots of shitty little companies tacking AI onto things that dont need AI go under, and the speculative ventures burning investor money on market share or technologies that may never turn profitable will be thinned out greatly. Its also possible we could see some big names that dont have revenue outside the AI market suffer financial setbacks and be absorbed. Its also possible the bubble could continue to grow for years and we could see some really ridiculous investments and an even more devastating crash in the end.
Even technologies that totally transform society, like trains or the Internet, can overinvest and eventually pop. It doesnt mean the tech goes away, it just means investors take a bath and the dead weight gets burned off.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of)English81·26 days agoI want a Pike and Sisko spinoff after they are both removed from the timeline. Now that would have been an interesting way to start section 31.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, AppearanceEnglish2·1 month agoI think its mostly just how thin his skin is and how hes publicising these events. Usually with a VIP political figure addressing the troops the big concern is physical security. They know full well that ~50% of the people in the room hate their guts, and they are totally ok with and used to that. They also know everyone will at least keep their mouth shut if they disagree.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, AppearanceEnglish2·1 month agoThey kind of have to. They can order to them to stand there for the speech and to cheer at the end, but there are a lot of ways to interpret that order. Better to hand pick people who want to be there, rather than deal with a bunch of sarcastic soldiers trying to make their displeasure known on camera.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024English10·1 month agoThats less than 50 million GPT plus subscriptions, even fewer if you factor in the more expensive subscriptions. Thats alot of subscriptions, but not an implausible number.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks WashingtonEnglish4·1 month agoWait, Im confused. Which ones the hyper capitalist and which ones the fascist?
Ive looked into this a little bit before, and while insects have theoretical advantages, its actually really difficult to beat chickens for turning feed into protein. Beef is extremely inefficient by nature, but theres a lot of technical hurdles between us from an insect meat world.
At that point its just self hatred manifest.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviewsEnglish141·2 months agoHow much joy and creativity do think there was in these places before?
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•Russia advanced their economy tremendously during the warEnglish212·2 months agoSo really everyone should be sanctioning Russia, for their own good.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and RussiaEnglish332·2 months agoProbably not. Russia’s motives dont stem from a communications failure. They stem from predatory imperialist intent, and they arnt scared of the EU or Canada.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Sean 'Diddy' Combs rejects plea deal ahead of sex trafficking trialEnglish20·2 months agoOnly legally. If he was angling for a pardon the story would be he was a heroic innocent alpha male wrongly convicted by a woke liberal California court trying to silence him because of democrat feminism Obama.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The Pentagon is the best shape for a large buildings as long as all surrounding buildings are also PentagonsEnglish41·3 months agoYou might never see the sun again!
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto Global News@lemmy.zip•China invites European countries to form united front against Trump tariffsEnglish31·3 months agoReally the most surprising thing about this whole debacle has been just how little support China has been able to rally, at least in public. I dont think they realized just how much ill will the wolf-warrior strategy had earned them over the past few decades.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone ImaginedEnglish61·3 months agoIn two generations well probably be banging rocks together in a irradiated hellscape and Ill hopefully be long dead.
Creating an enduring positive legacy takes effort, and neither Jobs or Bezos really made an attempt. Guys like Musk and Gates are making that effort and are likely to be remembered, although I think its pretty unlikely Musk will ever be able to restore a positive connotation to his name.
jrs100000@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone ImaginedEnglish71·3 months agoYou know their name. Just about everyone reading your comment knows their names as well. Further, when most people hear their names the first thing that pops into their head is something positive and prestigious, not the awful things they did to make their fortunes. Many of their descendants are still wealthy and powerful to this day. It doesn’t really make much difference if people spend time looking at their portraits.
And before that we had tiny wikipedia’s written on paper.