If I am reading that right, the beaker is filled with lots of sheets and clumps of sheets not just a single one. So, it’s not clear what if anything a single sheet would look like.
It would be interesting to revisit this review for the forthcoming Strix Halo. Particularly, for ML tasks on relative large memory sizes which are prohibitively expensive for GPUs.
Hospitality and healthcare occupations are doing badly in much of the Western World. Construction is highly seasonal, and arguably much of it is currently driven by an investment bubble rather than organic demand which could pop, ending in a long winter. Skilled trades, maybe, but you need a healthy job market so that people can afford these.
While these occupations are safe from AI, for time being, they're not safe per se.
> you need a healthy job market so that people can afford these.
So much this. I was reading recently about how remote white collar work has strongly stimulated trades workers like electricians and plumbers. Once all of the high-paying remote work is gone, who is going to be able to pay for that sort of work outside of doctors?
"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. "
I'm reminded of the Paperclip game (https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html). While the goal of this superhuman ai was to create as many paperclips as possible, a normal person living in this time would be completely oblivious to this goal and would continue to imagine a rich fulfilling world around them, complete with values and dreams. Spoiler warning: in the end everything is obliterated for more paperclips.
We have no idea the direction things will go, and we maybe can't even use our prior reasoning to guess where this tech revolution will lead us, but I'm happy we're witnessing this in an open society where such tech is more or less available to all. It's hard to think of a more promising scenario than what we're currently faced with.
Thank you, that looks like a great book, and I'm impressed that they made it open access.
I'll try to find the time to go over it in more detail later, but from brief skimming now, I failed to find the "bottom line", saying how long we have until we run out of energy sources, and it seems to be advocating that by moving to renewable sources, we are good to go forever, at least unless population growth continues exponentially.
So with population growth declining across the world, and the gradually accelerating shift to renewables (and continuously improving tech), I don't quite see a big cause for concern. While of course it's true that there is some limit to how many GPUs we can run on Earth, I don't think we're anywhere close to that limit, and I don't see a particular argument against the option of seeding the rest of the universe with compute infrastructure too (other than that we should stop to think whether we should).
Same story with energy. Google gives us free stuff cause someone pays. And the moment the ad industry stops paying the bill the next data center becomes unaffordable. The story is never about how much energy is available in the universe. The story is about Ameobas over eating and blowing up.
For me it is that it opens all "most visited sites" in new tabs.
I usually go between 6-10 sites and use tabs mostly as a "read later". Sometime last year I started getting a lot of open tabs, and closing them one by one (to keep my read later tabs) is pretty darn annoying. I switched away from FF for that.
I don't understand this comment. A quick look up of the `Morgenthau plan` seems to indicate it was focussed on removing Germany's military power by crushing their industrial output and various other economic restrictions.
Russia cutting off oil doesn't seem to be synonymous with the intent of Morgenthau, it may have a similar side-effect but it's not the same as far as I can see.
There are spectral data available in the original publication https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00518-4