I think I agree but it will take some time before their gamble on local LLMs start to pay off and I don't think it will completely kill off Anthropic (though. I would question their trillion dollar valuation if I was not already).
Buy a cheap midi controller from Akai or Arturia and they usually come with a free license for Lite, which in turn will give you a decent discount should you decide to upgrade to Standard or Suite, not to mention having a decent midi controller make use Ableton and such much more enjoyable.
three main version are Lite, Standard and Suite. Lite is pretty decent and almost has everything that Standard has except limits you to 8 tracks, Suite is where the real magic is though with Max4Live and such.
I really think its a decent model, one really doesn't usually need the latest and greatest version of Ableton to do most things and the rent to own option give broke artist a way to get into the software while the developers still get paid.
you might also consider Reaper which is infinity customizable, I personally use both Ableton and Reaper both are fantastic (as is Logic and Renoise which I also sometimes use). Might be worth noting that Max4Live is only included in Ableton Suite not Standard and other but can be added separately.
You are a good friend and truly the solution to the problem is simply people looking for the people in their lives that are struggling and being there for them, its amazing what just a little acknowledgment from a friend (or even a stranger) can do for someone.
One day I was at a store checking out and the attendant was rather brusk and didn't seem particularly friendly, but he was wearing a watch that I liked and I simply stated that I liked his watch and he lit up, the whole dynamic changed in an instant. I wasn't trying to be nice I literally just liked his watch but after seeing how he opened up and changed after that statement I realized just how much joy can be created with a simple compliment. I try to genuinely compliment people more often now.
Honestly, yes I think it is possible for things to get better because they have frankly been FAR worse, for reference see most of human history. Most of us lived our formative years in an era of unprecedented peace, we currently find ourselves in an era of transition which often leads to periods of tribalism and strife.
Yeah, Altman and the people in that world are utilitarians, which you would think they would have learned by now doesn't translate well to public conversation (or reality if we are being honest).
Getting people to vote against building anything is easy, of course when people start complaining about lack of housing, or a failing economy its quite a bit more challenging for them to recognize how regulation (that they may have voted for) led to those issues.
honestly Linux has gotten pretty good even for gaming, I set up a Linux (Fedora) on my primary gaming rig as a lark and figured I would go back to windows but I have not really had the need to and some games actually even run better on Linux it seems.
This is a neat idea but some of the claims on that website seem extremely propagandistic. I'm not particularly gung ho about datacenters but if datacenters are causing water issues the solution is to shine a light on alternative technologies to solve the problem. Perhaps Chile could become a leader in building cleaner datacenters but thats not the goal I am taking from this initiative.
That seems like a bit of a false equivalency this was not some precious old growth forest, it was basically a managed logging area so more comparable to some farm land in the US, and this is me speaking as a certified tree hugger here.
I mean you could say something similar about most utilities though. Google will pay taxes on their investment to Finland and the services will be available to people in the region whats else would you really ask for?
yeah I was wondering about this since when I looked on the map the "forest" area in question appears to be rather new and was clearly part of a reforestation effort also the first thing I saw when randomly looked at the street view in the area was logging trucks harvesting the trees.
Interesting the forest area in question doesn't appear to be some sort of amazing old growth forest thats been there for centuries it appears to be old logging sites that was maybe reforested a few decades or so ago.
I never said I wouldn't miss it or that is is useless, just that in comparison to other services I pay for (or the company I work for pays for) I could easily live without it.
I have to ask though, are these lines of code making you money? If so will you continue to need to produce this amount of code over the next 2 to 5 years to continue to profit from your work? I also would point out this argument could be applied to choosing some open source framework over another because of the number of lines of code it contains which doesn't make sense.
I can't think of any use case for AI that is a necessity for myself (or people I know), even if coding agents (which I use every day) disappeared tomorrow it would only be a minor inconvenience that I had to write my own code again. Now lets contrast that with electricity or internet, if either of those went offline I would be on a call trying to get them restored asap, now as far as I know neither of those industries bring in $6T in revenue.
> We must move past vague discussions of “AI” and instead isolate the specific types of systems that are creating problems.
This is absolutely correct and its surprising how rarely you see commenters in the media push to go into the specifics on this. AI is just matrix math and its what you connect that math to that matters, we should talk a little more about what we are willing to connect AI to and little less about how scary or capable the models appear.
I'm really hoping AI does not become the next political culture war thing, but I'm afraid it probably already is moving in that direction; though it does at least seem that the dividing lines won't be red vs blue this time.
I really hope the bar associations continues to hold lawyers to high standards but I have feeling they may not be ready to handle fallout of AI slop-law.