Anyone paying for Ai are also responsible for this. They are those who rent and create a profitable business. And I’m not just talking about users like Microsoft, but also people like you and me and smaller companies.
True, but paying a company $20 a month versus paying a company $200 or $2000 or $20000 or $200000 or $2000000 a month are all vastly different numbers.
As an individual, yes. But the mass makes a big difference. Just because there are terrible companies throwing trash in the ocean does not mean it is okay for you to throw your single trash into it too. And if you do, you are not better than them, you just have less money to throw at it. That’s the kind of message I’m trying to communicate.
That’s true too, there is a cumulative effect.
I guess I’m a shitty person then because I use AI (even outside of work where I’m chosing to use it and not forced to use it), although I guess shitty people can still do good things so maybe it’s not all bad.
I do get it though, the way AI is being used, the way companies abuse it to replace employees and layoff thousands, tens of thousands, etc, and the environmental impact AI has from the sheer scale of it is destroying the environment is all terrible and indefensible, but ultimately I find it too helpful for me to go without using it.
Mind you, I’m not 100% against using Ai. But it should be used responsibly, and only on your local hardware without paying money to support them. This doesn’t solve the issue that the models are trained unethical. I have a few local Ai models installed, but my hardware is weak and it is only semi helpful for simple questions or brainstorming, or looking at simple functions (programming) to help with refactoring. Nothing else though.
Before you accuse me of being a hypocrit, I never said nobody should ever use Ai tools ever. My initial comment was about being bad person if you pay these companies money and support them this way. But ultimately you have your own definition of bad person, and if that is the most important thing in the world for you. And no, I’m also not Jesus. lol
Eh, we are currently experiencing what is called “steam engine time”. Tons of people are working on this AI tech at the same time and are sometimes inventing the same tech nearly simultaneously, the same as with steam engines hundreds of years ago. All of the conditions were there: Decades of previous research, new breakthroughs, fast enough hardware and enough capital to fund it all.
Sam Altman is a crook, but if it wasn’t for him, someone else would have done a similar thing in his place.
To anyone that gives money to the ai companies:
Fuck You.
Anyone with a 401k
That was the price I was kinda hoping for.
Well, maybe next time.
I’m calling $2500 by this time next year, for the base model.
You don’t think AI is going to collapse like bitcoin?
Not a bit. The stock market will subsedize the poor populations of earth into perpetuating their own self-funded surveilance network.
If anything gets better in the next five years, it would be a first for me at age 38, so it might just be my pocket pessimism, take it with an entire spoon of salt.
Ai isn’t a service, it’s a form of societal control. They don’t have to justify its price any more than they justify silver or gold’s, which are bullshit too. The entire market is perpetuated on bullshit. Ai is just the excuse to push the boulder along for more profit, with the side perk that it knows when you fall asleep at your desk.
With the specs they’re working with and compatibility, my son is going to build me one.
Gonna call it a Hot Steamer
I’m not in the market for the Steam Machine, but if I was, $1100 Cdn might be reasonable for this offering, I’d consider it.
Still hoping we can do better on pricing for the frame, that’s what I really want but I’ll wait a year if the launch prices are over $1000 Cdn ($700US)
PC are going to stop existing and we will all be streaming “our computers” from data centers a to a screen.
I wrote a comment on a German forum around 16/17 years ago that predicted how game and computer streaming services (Onlive had just been launched, there were also a few non-gaming cloud computing services for home users) could result in personal computing going extinct, because data centers providing these streaming services would buy up components, leaving nothing PCs.
I’m usually very, very wrong with my predictions, but this was my Nostradamus moment, I suppose.
I wonder if they sell just the case. That’s what I really want. That front plate screen is dope as fuck. Too bad what I have rn wouldn’t fit in it. 😬
Though I am also not sure about its actual dimensions (they have that info somewhere, right?) It might be slightly too tall to put it on the shelf I want to so it would end up in the same place my PC is right now: Behind the TV where I can’t see it. 😩
Its approx a 6 inch cube
3d print it.
