A lot of damage to his bottom line, I hope.

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    After seeing the keynotes at CES this year I am convinced every tech CEO desperately sees themselves as the next Steve Jobs on this one. “Hype” of the iPhone But with none of the innovation. The iPhone was something tangible and useful to people. It actually enhanced something we all used. So many things that were talked about this year were met with crickets from the audience. AI in GPUs you can’t afford and frame generation, AI in CPUs, AI in your coffee maker. The audience was skeptical and uninterested because the technology hasn’t proven itself yet. But here we are going all-in.

    I literally just had a conversation with a coworker where he said we need more AI to auto generate and populate forms and save us the hassle. He gave a bunch of examples and I said, never touching copilot, “It sounds like you should just be able to ask it to do these extremely basic tasks and it would complete them.” And he replied that he tried a number of ways but it could never get them right. It’s a half baked technology at best.

    All that is happening is geared towards data centers and the tech companies themselves. All we get to do is ask a fancy search engine things and it spits out things that may or my not be true or plagiarized. Its not an original thought but just a smashed together search. We can ask it to complete tasks with a 30% success rate. They want to feed it so much information it will destroy your basic privacy as well as the ecosystem. Oh but we get the privilege of renting comupting power to play games on their servers. Don’t worry about the hastle of a home PC anymore.

    Nothing tangible, nothing better than what we already have.

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      Anyone else remember when they proclaimed that thin clients and other VM-based solutions were the future of PCs? This is them trying to make that vision happen as an added bonus.

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      Tbf I think stuff like frame generation is useful, mostly because game companies often don’t optimize their games well. Of course, they’ll prob optimize them even more poorly now because people will be able to use frame generation.