• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    5 months ago

    It is beautiful how the US is never short on cash for state aid to enrich some owners.

    But god forbid plebs ask for a good train, that’s communism!

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      5 months ago

      Socialism for giant corporations: 😎🦅🇺🇸

      Socialism for common people: 😡🚫🤷‍♂️

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Socialism for giant corporations: Freedumb™️

        Socialism for common people: communism, thus the devil!

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    5 months ago

    most of that ‘hundreds of billions’ isn’t going to go towards the tech or infrastructure, it’s gonna go to people. a very small number of specific individuals.

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        5 months ago

        Project Stargate is funded via private investment, the US hasn’t pledged any money

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            5 months ago

            Sure but a 68.4 million tax break is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions pledged privately

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          correct.

          hell, i could live my ‘best’ life off of musk’s ‘sofa cushion’ money:

          $2.5m is more than enough for me to live on just using investment proceeds–in perpetuity.

          $2.5m to him (with ~ $436b) is the equivalent of fifty-seven cents to someone with $100k (in the bank, investments, retirement, home equity, etc). now, i don’t have $100k, not even close. just using it as an example here. my equivalent would be more like half a cent.

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            They’re mentally ill IMO. Like that old person hoarding vacuum cleaners, diapers, dogfood, etc.

            The most infuriating thing is that for them it’s just a number, for society it stifles innovation and wellbeing.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

    What you’re likely seeing here is innovation similar to the early tech sector. The hardware limitation (no Nvidia chips) means different (usually more complex) solutions are needed.

    These solutions usually require a deep understanding of a specific area of mathematics, and expertise in coding. The person making it normally has to be heavily invested, since it still eats a lot of hours.

    I often joke, the mathematician who finds a faster algorithm for matrix operations is sitting on a billion dollar idea.

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      5 months ago

      And that mathematician won’t see the profits for that faster algorithm and you will never hear their name - shits been happening in tech for decades

  • Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world
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    Of course it’s faster & cheaper when it’s being censored & can’t access half of human history because the fucking ccp finds it offensive.

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

      If censorship would make it cheaper then surely it wouldn’t be that much cheaper than OpenAI. Different things are being censored and blocked but surely, your suggestion is a bit silly.

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        Your comment is a bit silly. The CCP engages in currency manipulation amongst other nefarious actions to prop up its interests. It was likely created from stolen data & heavily propped up by the government, just like various other projects that were supposedly Chinese “innovations” but looks remarkably like their western competitors.

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          The CCP engages in currency manipulation amongst other nefarious actions to prop up its interests.

          Yeah? So does the US. Didn’t make OpenAI cheaper, did it?

          It was likely created from stolen data

          Just like ChatGPT was created with stolen content.

          heavily propped up by the government

          Still only 6 million. Keep coping tho lol

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      And? China is ahead of us in a lot of areas, especially military drone tech. They got shit we’re still trying to get to work, and they just launched their first drone aircraft carrier. As an added bonus, when the US Navy tried war games against drone swarms, they found they were only able to stop the attack from destroying ships half the time.

      People need to start taking China seriously when it comes to tech, because they haven’t been fooling around. When it finally comes around to us fighting them, we’re gonna have a lot of nasty surprises to deal with.

  • Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Anyone who thinks this was about getting AI working was the idiot from the start, there still isn’t even a real use-case for it. This was always about funneling huge amounts of money from the government budget to a bunch of rich assholes. The outcome doesn’t matter at all here.

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      there still isn’t even a real use-case for it

      There are several real use cases for it, it’s just that they’re worth like ten bucks a month to me all together and OpenAI is running at a loss while charging… *checks notes* 200 dollars per month for their top tier model?

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        5 months ago

        And making starving artists’ lives even more unlivable. And taking human creativity and joy from humans.

        While destroying the environment. It’s so efficient.

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      Yeah all the info is there and something switches it over to the generic response.

      So fucked.