They also didn't start delving into DEI madness in 2010...neglecting the engineering to chase the "diversity" ghost

Yep, I had writeups from those flame wars. They *REALLY* did not want it discussed. Governors Brown and Kotek continued the pay-to-play system, which is what lost Oregon the Ohio CHIPs foundry campus (before they realized that Biden wasn't going to pay out CHIPs act at all).

All one needs to see this is to be employed at Intel in June, when every single monitor becomes rainbows and the rainbow flag flies on campus every month.

Cool videos, cutesy chats, pictures.

Guess what? Nobody cares. People want actual useful, accurate intelligence appliances that reliably cough up the right answers. An intelligence appliance that can handle rule based reasoning as well as the fuzzy probabilistic neural net prediction, preferably one that can figure out how many Rs are in "strawberry."

Unfortunately, OpenAI is like most software development companies. They do what's easy and makes a quick buck, not what matters.

Not to mention the millions spent on DEI hiring of marginal people based only on demographics.

He did, on the promise of the Biden CHIPs act money- the employees ballooned to 145,000 worldwide by October 2022.

Due to CHIPs act not coming through as planned, in December 2022 they started rounds of layoffs, which Lu Tan is continuing

Cloud computing = someone else's servers = somebody always looking over your shoulder.

It's the security state's wet dream.

Eventually, someone is going to make cost effective, low power photonic chips that can replace the current crop of NPUs and GPUs. Then what happens when these things all become dinosaurs?

Explain the potential security implications, assuming there are any?

Or if it's even still readable. Intel when retrieving the 486 tape-in for the Edison project had to bake the tapes in an oven to remove moisture, and then had ONE CHANCE at imaging the tape as it crumbled to dust going through the reader.

If you're prevented from leaving, isn't that technically kidnapping?

I work in localization. Technical writing is often easier for machine-translation systems, because the writing is (ideally) deliberately clear, concise, and structured.

The terminology issue you mention can be addressed at least partially by feeding any such machine-translation system a list of words and phrases to keep as-is in the target text.

Fiction, meanwhile, often involves complicated and subtle wordplay, which no AI system is going to handle very well.

Already thrilled to learn what erotic literature..

.. will read like, after it has been dragged through the automatic translation process. Even the automatically translated descriptions of sex toys on Aliexpress are hilarious, and those are really short and not sophisticated.

I can see it now:

"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."

How about giving the choice for an analog control and taking the wasted extra money spent on computer chips + design + digital display and making the motor last longer?

I would love it if some manufacturer would produce tried-and-true analog designs without all the extra add-on, planned-obsolescence, enshittified bullshit. I suspect this approach would do quite well in the market, at least in certain product categories -- blenders, ovens, washing machines, etc.

Actually, this reminds me to take a look at Lehman's catalog, see what they're getting up to these days. I bumped into them quite by accident ages ago when a relative was living in Amish country. Poking around their website just now, I see things like ovens and hand-cranked mixers. A bit pricey, but no "ET phone home" rubbish and solid workmanship.

• https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lehmans.com%2F

(Crikey, slashcode still doesn't render bulleted lists correctly. How stupidly embarrassing.)

That's going to be expensive as hell.

I thought that was the entire point of consumer IoT goods? Rent-seeking by manufacturers?

(Serious question, not just snark.)