The article says the software developer is making a six-figure salary and the prison system withholds 10%.
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That's a different problem, for different inmates -- the inmates covered in this story are paid market rates. It mentions the software developer has a six-figure salary.
A really good article, although it's weird for the NYT to try so hard to frame the explosion of cheap green energy technology coming from China as somehow potentially nefarious or dangerous. Yes, China is prioritizing its own national interests as it exports green energy tech. And? It's still an overwhelmingly positive development for pretty much all of humanity.
A few points about that: It wasn't just a few months ago, it was more than a year ago; he wasn't raising funds for OpenAI, it was for a separate chip-building venture; the $7T number was universally regarded as laughable, and the whole thing has predictably gone nowhere; and, FWIW, both OpenAI and Altman have publicly denied that he was ever trying to raise such a comical amount.
Authors are Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares.
The article is adapted from their forthcoming book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
You're a software developer. How do you function? Do you spend pretty much your entire waking life with a headache?
(Note: The word "local" in the headline means "in Australia")
Your phrasing there is misleading. The article says, "In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined," and the key is the "added more to GDP growth" part.
Growth in consumer spending was sluggish, while growth in business AI spending was insane, so in terms of how much the economy grew, the rise in AI spending exceeded the rise in consumer spending. Which is pretty amazing, actually. But, as far as the total amount of spending, business AI is at most only a few percentage points of GDP (and that's if you interpret "business AI spending" very broadly), while consumer spending is somewhere around 67-70% of GDP.
"The 65th edition of the TOP500 showed that the El Capitan system retains the No. 1 position. With El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora, there are now 3 Exascale systems leading the TOP500. All three are installed at Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories in the United States."
HPC6 is listed below those, and far less powerful.
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010...
It's not very common at all. The 2010 US Census reported 218 people with the surname of Zuckerberg. I assume no more than a handful of them also have the first name Mark.
And it can't even do that without an Internet connection. As someone who experiences annoyingly frequent outages, it never ceases to boggle my mind that I have a $200 computer, with an 8" monitor and everything, that can't even understand "set a timer for 10 minutes" on its own.