I said this in another comment, but I feel it's edited to look like water he uses in his garage demos with that blue glitter.

I think it's edited to look like water he uses in his garage demos.

> only about $20-30 million

That is still an absurd amount of money

That’s on all lobbying efforts combined. It’s not out of line for a company of that scale that is trying to do things like build data centers and other such activities.

There’s a motte-and-bailey fallacy happening with that “Meta spent $2 billion” report where the $2 billion number is used as a hook but then replaced with a different argument if the other parties are observant enough to see that it’s BS

What's absurd is lying by two orders of magnitude and expecting people not to completely ignore everything you have to say because of that.

Funny how you didn't even mention MS Copilot, which many of my friends who work for big corporations seem to have been forced to use at work, and as a consequence, also for personal use.

Oh yeah, that is funny. Thanks for adding it; I thought I was missing at least one major one!

- Copilot: Great at finding and discussing docs, conversations, and other work items that it is connected to. For everything else, it seems somehow less smart than the others (YMMV).

Emphasis on the YMMV, obviously. Maybe my impression is colored by a small number of unlucky, less than stellar experiences (comparatively speaking).

Keep in mind that this is an Australian startup, and they already have some publications out on the ethics of doing this.

If you have any of those publication details handy, a link or citation would be helpful.

But what is being pitched as "AGI" hype is the latter.

none of what we are using today is even remotely being pitched as AGI. if anything, the foundation model makers go out of their way to pitch the opposite. this is a thing made up entirely in your head, and then you put it on others and then claim it was their doing.

Fair, but that's just what hype is. Overpromise, underdeliver. Most of us recognize its limits and take advantage of its strengths. This post (and many in it) seem to be inferring that AI is useless because it isn't AGI, answered a simple question wrong, was tricked, or didn't answer perfectly. This is cherry-picking at best, disingenuous at worst.

They are installed in pairs and work together with bow thrusters to allow for dynamic positioning, the RV Falkor (too) has them for this reason.

Tcl's first "release" was in 1988 and Magic was released in 1984, but it seems like John Ousterhout then wrote Tcl to have a common interface across tools [https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php]. It still is a big thing in EDA, because (in theory) it lets a chip designer run their designs by tools from different vendors

Some of KUKA's controllers still use telnet in their startup sequence.

A large industrial robot running an insecure protocol - what could possibly go wrong?

Thankfully all factory networks are airgapped from the internet, so it's a non-issue!

Right?

BYD are just affordable and maybe reliable, regarding maintenance their spares are hard to come by and are almost as hard to work with as Tesla and other brands.

I've done plenty of work on my own Tesla. It's not hard to work on at all. Parts are not even very difficult. There are plenty of 3rd party shops (such as one I went to when I needed to replace my windshield.) I really wonder why people continue to think this. It's not 2016 any more.

Tesla body work is extremely expensive. Aluminum, extensive welding instead of fasteners, substantially reduced modularity due to castings, specialized tooling just off the top of my mind.

Body work is expensive no matter what car you're working on. The presence of paint ensures it. The OP was talking about "maintenance" and body work doesn't fall under that category.

Are you a car mechanic living in China?

Presumably "hard to come by" would be somewhat irrelevant in any jurisdiction other than the US?

No, but I live in a country were Chinese cars have been sold since the 2010s and spare parts are still an issue. It might be an issue with their sales partners here, but many sell other brands from Korea and Japan and have no issues with them.