Thanks to your articles, I am keeping track of the ways AI hype has failed in the real world. I have watched multiple interviews with AI experts warning about the threat of AI wiping out humanity or at least eliminating “90% of jobs!!” Never do the interviewers bring up the business application failures, the computing limits or in this case, the limited self-driving capabilities. If AI is going to destroy mankind, with or without gaining consciousness, it better hurry up, before users get fed up and drop it and/or the circular financing bubble pops and wipes out AI companies first. And then there’s the growing pushback against swamping rural communities with energy- and water-guzzling data centers. We need more exposés of the lies of Musk and Altman and the fascist fantasies of Theil, Yarvin and Karp.
Let me confirm that large companies have finally gotten from the adoption phase to the “please save money phase.” The cost of compute and tokens is more than the people who can do the work at the level at AI. It is also safer than AI.
Having used it for my portion of tech I can say it helps to point out, or correlate where there might be something useful. It is not a replacement for discernment. It takes time off of the clock. It does not replace.
> I ask you, if Musk or Tesla had faith that HE4 was good enough, why would they be moving to replace it with something astronomically more powerful just a few years after launching the HW4?
Right. If HW4 was good enough, then HW5 would be a cost-reduced version of HW4 with possibly some small improvements here and there.
Musk has a self-destructive streak. He just can’t leave well enough alone. He’s got to introduce impossible constraints, and override his engineers and vehicle designers (Cybertruck).
He also couldn’t leave well enough alone with regard to his own reputation and Tesla’s. He had to cut USAID, leading to the deaths of over a million people, including hundreds of thousands of children. He couldn’t help himself. He’s mentally ill.
And now 50% of the population views him unfavorably. (I would like to know what percentage of Americans think he is a piece of shit.) How people think about him affects how the public feels about Tesla, and influences whether or not they’ll be inclined to purchase a Tesla.
Thanks to your articles, I am keeping track of the ways AI hype has failed in the real world. I have watched multiple interviews with AI experts warning about the threat of AI wiping out humanity or at least eliminating “90% of jobs!!” Never do the interviewers bring up the business application failures, the computing limits or in this case, the limited self-driving capabilities. If AI is going to destroy mankind, with or without gaining consciousness, it better hurry up, before users get fed up and drop it and/or the circular financing bubble pops and wipes out AI companies first. And then there’s the growing pushback against swamping rural communities with energy- and water-guzzling data centers. We need more exposés of the lies of Musk and Altman and the fascist fantasies of Theil, Yarvin and Karp.
Let me confirm that large companies have finally gotten from the adoption phase to the “please save money phase.” The cost of compute and tokens is more than the people who can do the work at the level at AI. It is also safer than AI.
Having used it for my portion of tech I can say it helps to point out, or correlate where there might be something useful. It is not a replacement for discernment. It takes time off of the clock. It does not replace.
All this argument rests on assumption that it’s possible to force any consequences on Tesla and Musk and that’s unlikely.
Musk appears to be somewhere between iver krueger and Preston Tucker
> I ask you, if Musk or Tesla had faith that HE4 was good enough, why would they be moving to replace it with something astronomically more powerful just a few years after launching the HW4?
Right. If HW4 was good enough, then HW5 would be a cost-reduced version of HW4 with possibly some small improvements here and there.
Musk has a self-destructive streak. He just can’t leave well enough alone. He’s got to introduce impossible constraints, and override his engineers and vehicle designers (Cybertruck).
He also couldn’t leave well enough alone with regard to his own reputation and Tesla’s. He had to cut USAID, leading to the deaths of over a million people, including hundreds of thousands of children. He couldn’t help himself. He’s mentally ill.
And now 50% of the population views him unfavorably. (I would like to know what percentage of Americans think he is a piece of shit.) How people think about him affects how the public feels about Tesla, and influences whether or not they’ll be inclined to purchase a Tesla.
https://natesilver.substack.com/p/elon-musk-polls-popularity-nate-silver-bulletin