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Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled "AI" "investments"
(arstechnica.com)
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
The huge benefit of a database is that you can get an exact answer in table form. It usually only leaks with a direct attack.
SELECT Issues FROM AI_investment WHERE Conclusion = "doh!";
Sure, here's an answer. With AI let's just hope you don't get "garbage out" even when you put neatly ordered assets in. AI's tendency to misuse 'assets' as training-data and ending up somewhere else is another side hustle for AI. And then we have these circular Nvidia deals which is product tying at best. Not that it matters, but would you like me to figure out more answers, or do you want me to perform a totally different query?
/Sigh.