Curiously, TFA doesn't raise the question of why demand surged, it spends its 8 microparagraphs only praising solar.
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I find it quite interesting, and somewhat disturbing, that we've so quickly come to the point of seeing the AI power drivers as openly adversarial to people and deeply entangled with equally adversarial government forces.
But are we actually (and realistically) talking about technofeudalism in the next couple of decades?
Have Microsoft charge people $ for their repos, and then take their code to train their LLM for more $.
And they can use the surplus $ to fund open source projects to produce more code to train their LLM for even more $, and reduce their taxes thanks to the charitable donations.
Everyone wins, right?
Thankfully we still have Codeberg.
E.g. the Pavlovian dog metaphor is quite a mainstream trope, but doesn't it carry an important message nevertheless?
If anything, I would say that fleeting takes and offhand dismissals are what determines and solidifies the mainstream's superficiality.
Unsurprisingly, I would say, the Cray is literally the prime example in "A Gallery of Computers as Furniture".[†]
>> I don't see it as democratic or democratising. TBH the knowledge is stored in three giga companies
It can appear democratic while access is allowed, but if it can be revoked at any moment for any reason (it is private companies, after all, that own the AI playgrounds), then the illusion will shatter.
What is more, excessive reliance on AI creates skill deficit rather than skill surplus, and promotes dependence on AI. Wizards that are nothing without their magic wands, in a way.
This may not stand out today, but give it half or one decade, when the next generation won't have a pre-AI skillet to fall back to, and the seams will become all too apparent.
It's probably the services (Care, iCloud, Music, and even TV), Apple's AI isn't on the overall map at all compared to the competition.
IIRC, a while before the sale Whatsapp tried to introduce some meagre subscription, on the order of dozens of cents, which got a lot of backlash. Then, a bit after that, it got sold.
The servers don't pay for themselves, and if the user base wasn't going to pay for use, money had to be manifested in another way.
Do you feel your question was the reason this is no longer the case? (Honestly curious, not /s.)
Also found out that the profiles also expire, so you need to update those in order to skip the update nagging. Apple's lolling all the way.
Funny how there are minor variations the world around.
E.g., around here, "happy holidays" would splash an ad for Jacobs coffee.
Cheap marketing, not much else.
> Must we do this dance every week now?
I think that's the point: they'll keep pushing for these things, until the public is fatigued and no longer cares to push back; at which point they'll get them through.
Duh, obviously, he only lisps. /s
And I'm sure in the end it will cave in. The "they" have a clear plan supported by infinitely more patience and resources than the "us" can muster, and the von der Leyen presidency has shown clear signs of direction towards more control, less privacy (by weakening the GDPR), and less of the good kind of regulation in industry.
As an EU citizen, I'm very unhappy with the Union's recent direction.
But, at least for now, hooray for the temporary victory on the Indian front!