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[–] umbraroze 27 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Huh.

You know, when I think of supercomputer applications, I think of deeply analytical problems based on solid math and well understood algorithms that can be highly parallelised to take the maximum theoretical advantage of the hardware at hand.

You know, the opposite of what the "AI" crowd is doing. Throwing vast amounts of crunching power at a barely understood hypothetical black-box problem in hopes that it potentially yields some interesting results. Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

AI is a buzzword with no real ability more than the Machine Learning approaches that have existed for over 20 years now.

AI isn't real, we have not achieved artificial intelligence. Its a marketing term made to hype up pump and dumps.

They made LLMs make ChatGPT sound like a person but it's just as dumb as the programs that came before that didn't sound like a person.

The current Machine Learning models have reached the limitations of their usefulness, and creating more powerful approaches means someone inventing a more efficient algorithmic approach to Machine Learning, which we still haven't done after we reached this model 20 years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-rivals-seek-new-path-smarter-ai-current-methods-hit-limitations-2024-11-11/

[–] Opisek 5 points 13 hours ago

Why think of intelligent solutions when you can just throw more money at the problem. Surely that's how you deal with issues.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Why does Elon need all these handouts? If he wants to build toys he should do so with his own money.

[–] PetteriPano 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He doesn't have that kind of money.

He owns stock valued at insane prices. No one will buy 6B worth of stocks. Trying to crank it out on the open exchanges would make the value dive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

So since he is actually broke it wouldn't hurt if we took all that wealth and redistributed it?

Lmao it's insane what some people do to downplay the insane excess wealth of the literal richest person ever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't become the richest prick in the world by spending his own money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 1 points 17 hours ago

Something something, never got a job from a poor man.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

His vaporware time after time raises billions without any viable output.

In a meanwhile, there are legit businesses which struggle financially because the market 'doesn't believe' in them.

Free market will solve it, my ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Free market? Welcome to the bailout economy, where success is determined purely by proximity to power. Any facade of a free market died in 2008.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How the fuck do people keep giving him more money??

Most of his ventures are dumpster fires, and SpaceX only runs well because he doesn't touch it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He does touch it. Remember the obliterated launch pad that also critically damaged his rocket about a year ago? That was him.

Also, SpaceX runs "well" because it got billions of government dollars to get humans to Mars and so far they've been able to blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. Literally. SpaceX has spent all that money and hasn't even hit the first target on a long list of targets.

Think about this: SpaceX has spent more time and government money than NASA did for the Appollo project and what did both do? NASA got the first human to the moon. SpaceX shot a car in low earth orbit, obliterated a launch pad (amongst so much more) and fried a banana over the Indian ocean. Their big rocket managed to hit LEO in an uncontrolled spin until it burned up. Seriously, SpaceX is playing at step one and failing to reach step 2

They do cheer loudly when yet again a rocket blows up. Do you remember all the cheers at NASA when their tickets blew up all the time? Oh yeah, that's right. They had a tiny fraction of the computer power of today and went for the "do it right the first time" and they did.

SpaceX sucks. It's just another Musk toy that peoplem are giving a free pass because reasons.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because he's in charge of the government now. Oligarch power. We are rightly fucked. They will all make even more money and dump any losses on us.

[–] devfuuu 18 points 1 day ago

Absolutely amazing thar nuclear power is now so close to his control or influence. Nothing to be afraid of.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m so tired of hearing about this fucking cheesedick

[–] ocassionallyaduck 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Too, bad. He won the election he bought, and so now he's (no joke) being proposed as speaker of the house (3rd in line to presidency) which is an unelected position.

Then if/when Trump dies and JD Vance gets killed/abdictates, you have Elon President.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A high school education ought to explain why this isn’t possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

And yet the Supreme Court might explain why it is possible. You believe the truth matters. They don't.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago

Please don’t encourage this monster.

[–] kaitco 61 points 1 day ago

xAI? Ain’t that his son?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

it pays to have a saudi arabian sugar daddy to sink money into your tax shelter.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Elon Musk's xAI has raised $6 billion in its latest funding round, pushing its total capital raised to $12 billion at a valuation of $50 billion, reports TechCrunch. The round, which involved 97 investors, followed a doubling of xAI's valuation within six months and solidified the company's position as a growing competitor in the AI sector.

Major investors in this funding round include Nvidia, AMD, Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, and Sequoia Capital, among others. Only previous investors who backed Musk's earlier ventures, such as the Twitter acquisition, could participate. The minimum investment per participant was $77,593, but the identities of most investors remain undisclosed.

There is a club...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The cult of musk. If you raise from your fan club you don't get held to account.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Musk + Nvidia, AMD, Andreessen Horowitz, Blackrock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, and Sequoia Capital

How much shit do they have over daddy Sam?

Asking for a friend.

[–] VubDapple 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"And you ain't in it!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Well Nvidia and AMD will get their money (and possibly some other investors money too) straight back in equipment purchases.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is gonna use those for terrible things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Nah. As most things he touch, it would be nothing but smoke.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It's just more money laundering for Xelon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

*translation

Corporations pay to subordinate themselves to the newest idiot in chief.

[–] CitizenKong 9 points 1 day ago

Anything Musk touches is immediately tainted by association. Any AI product he has a say in should immediately be considered a potential danger to humanity as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Each individual element in that headline is perfectly tailored to make this comment section nothing but rage and irrelevant insults.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I must admit I got triggered by the word "to".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can someone imagine the outcome of a single Elon company going bust?

[–] reddig33 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Xitter went bust a long time ago. It’s propped up by political interests. Tesla auto will probably be in the dumps after the smoke and mirrors wear off. No one outside the cult wants to buy a new Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

i still have no idea why people wanted to buy teslas before he took off the mask either. they're ugly as sin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Tesla originally had some star power because they were doing things that traditional automakers claimed were impossible. A litany of poor engineering decisions and Elon showing his true colors have worn off any remaining novelty.

[–] eran_morad 3 points 1 day ago

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