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Once you fully factor in all the real costs, being a ride share driver using your own vehicle with human passengers is not a very good deal in most areas.

Delivering cargo of some sort is usually a more lucrative option.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Rideshare-Driver-Salar...

Just follow the money. It explains everything you need to know.

Like going out of his way to demonstrate that Starlink can not be relied upon for national security.

The "capital markets" are not closed. The "market" itself doesn't decide what to invest in -- individuals and corporations do.

I would expect an individual/corporation armed with real "super intelligence" to have a distinct advantage in this regard --- wouldn't you?

What better way to prove the value of AI than applying it to earn mountains of money in the open market --- instead of setting mountains of the stuff on fire.

My contact list offers one indispensible feature --- it supports call filtering.

For years I have run my Android phone continuously in "Do Not Disturb" mode. This mode can be easily configured so you must be on my list in order to ring my phone.

I can still see unknown callers and I can call them back if/when I choose but they don't have the privilege of making my phone ring on demand.

I find that life is better and much more pleasant this way.

Can Calltags do this efficiently without a contact list?

Why do AI companies rely on capital markets to keep them afloat?

Why? Because this is where all the money is. And because the survival of AI companies ultimately depends on the ability to earn more than they spend.

Open Source is economically viable???

And AI feeds on open source???

Am I missing the sarcasm or something? Or perhaps that an AI bot created this post.

These companies exist specifically to identify and take advantage of aberrations and inefficiencies in capital markets.

This is something I would expect "super intelligence" to excel at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hedge_funds

Can they make more money doing this? I don't think so --- and apparently, they don't either.

Finance and equity markets would be the first place I would look to apply "super intelligence" for huge, quick cconomic returns.

Instead, they peddle "tokens". Wonder why?

Catch 22 --- In order to pay for itself, AI needs to eliminate the very jobs that build the experience and expertise necessary to provide the "right guidance".

At the same time, this will restrict production of quality content that is needed for model training.

In other words, AI creates a self degrading/defeating feed back loop.

Claiming it's someone else's fault doesn't necessarily make it legally so.

The only way for AI to pay for itself is to eliminate workers and lots of them. And not just low paid workers but mostly higher paid knowledge workers.

In other words; success of AI means a shrinking economy --- fewer people with the disposable income to buy all the nonessential products built with the help of AI.

So AI is ultimately a self defeating economic loop. And this is not just my opinion --- many AI "leaders" acknowledge this and are starting to discuss things like subsistence level "universal basic income". Aka, wellfare for everyone --- until they realize that this means higher taxes on themselves.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-ai?op...

Cheap, renewable solar now has the largest power generation capacity in China. In the USA, it is only about 8%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-overtakes-coal...

And it's not just me. Looking at market share, most users are clearly underwhelmed with how they use their money.

The only advantage the US currently has is access to the most advanced AI processors.

But, but, but he is clearly missing the most crucial point.

What about all the biological men competing as women in sports?

Like a rich kid living on daddy's money, they're somewhat disconnected from the reality that most people exist in.

Because they obviously want China to have a long term advantage with AI.

And they like the fact that consumers will be saddled with higher energy costs.

Thanks for the open admission that regular Firefox does not.

I'm not much to look at and what I really want people to see is usually something on my computer screen.

Texas rolled out the red carpet to corporate interests --- and then discovered that their electrical grid operation is totally inadequate to deal with the impact.

This is just one isolated example of a much larger issue related to the "AI race".

AI is power intensive and the "winner" of the "AI race" is likely be whoever can produce lower cost power and lots of it.

In other words, they're not really profitable.