And they can’t afford to stay behind in their opinion. If there’s a chance general AI works and they’re not using it when it kicks in, they’re going to be left behind in the dust.
Of course this would also shake apart the labor market, the remaining taters of the social fabric and the economy, but that’s a problem for next quarter.
Yeah, it means giving up the current cash cow and they’ll only do that when it’s visibly dying. And then the competition has too much of a headed start so it’s already to late.
Coal Brittain -> Petro Murica -> Electro China.
It’s funny how China said years ago that was the plan and they’re doing it while nobody stopped them because of short term greed.
That’s kind of sily. You need some local hardware to run that virtual desktop environment, handle grapics and streaming. That means it’s powerful enough to run a browser and some basic apps locally, what covers most of what people need. If you do need a virtual desktop for the few things not covered by a basic browser, you probably pay a lot for the privelege. Then you get people living in a region with bad internet, like rural places, who’ll get fed up with laggy performance in no time.
Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.
layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts
Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.
Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.
That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.
Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.
Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.
Tales from the field:
One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.
One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.
Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.
AI works, we lose our jobs.
AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.
AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.
Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.
Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement
And then you have Lock-picking Lawyer bypassing the smart lock in seconds.
Netherlands, Belgium and UK.
Driving with a nav system is a part of the driver license test here.
They said it can write code. They never said it can fix code or debug issues.
That’s like saying you can drive, bit can’t navigate or park.
I’ve lived long enough to go through multiple AI winters. This is just business failure as usual.
And they’ll probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.
In a previous company, they roled out their update every few months. Every time, it closed all the ports we need to actually work. Make ticket, wait until IT got around to it, tell people no connection means no work. Those were the days to update documentation.