Sadly, it was already just a gutted shell of its former self at this point. This is just putting the zombie to rest.

And Trump's term is only half finished.

It's quite remarkable. Russia's military proved itself to be an unexpected paper tiger when they launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine, a completely unforced error. And now America's done the exact same thing attacking Iran (though it's still a bigger paper tiger than Russia's military, so Cuba shouldn't breathe a sigh of relief just yet). Trump longs to be like Putin, and a monkey's finger curls on the paw...

Wait until you hear about a proposed new emergency method of keeping patients with respiratory failure oxygenated: enteral ventilation.

Some turtles do this naturally.

She is literally an example of someone who did get paid.

And then the BBC sues, wins, and eventually they just start seizing assets.

Trump has lost court cases and has paid out before.

There is demand, but that demand only exists because consumers aren't being exposed to the actual price of AI.

I use AI extensively and it's mostly via local models, which I pay 100% of the inference costs for.

If the only way this keeps going is propping up the industry with investor money and circular financing, then when one of those eventually give and the public are exposed to the true price of AI - what happens then?

Reduced AI usage. Not no AI usage, though. For example, my usage wouldn't go down one whit. The price wouldn't change at all for me.

The alternative was to not know how to fix it and bring it in to the shop for someone else to do.

How much do you use ChatGPT? Have you had much experience with its car repair suggestions recently?

I haven't used it and don't intend to, so that is my stance on the technology.

You actually are, though. Lemmy makes use of AI in its development.

And is the money in fact pouring in or is it trapped in a very well disguised circular motion between key companies?

To what end?

There are clearly identifiable "drains" for that circulating money. When a data center gets built money flows out to purchase real estate, it flows out to construction companies, it flows out to power providers, it flows out to chip manufacturers who pay staff and buy raw materials and so forth. Money is leaving the system. That can't be sustained for long without it coming in to the system from somewhere, and AI's been booming for four years now. Someone's got to be getting something valuable out of it, I'm dubious that literally all of this money is just being dumped in by investors who haven't seen a dime of return in all that time.

That list I linked to shows that an enormous number of real-world software projects are using AI for various things, for example. Money's changing hands for at least some of that usage.

Not sure he can do that without consequence. A quick Googling suggests that once the case has gone to discovery like this one, both sides need to agree to a dismissal and if the BBC thinks they have a strong case (which I think they probably do) they would would demand compensation. They spent a lot of resources fighting this already, after all.

Sounds like there will be even bigger demand for automation and AI with a population drop like that.

None of those things you mention are analog.

I've fixed my car by describing the problem to ChatGPT and being given an explanation of what I need to do to resolve it. There's nothing incompatible here.