🌎 Discussion: Online Piracy, AI, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

 

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Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement

Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Google's top AI scientist says ‘learning how to learn’ will be next generation's most needed skill

Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the most valuable human skill for the future will be “learning how to learn” as artificial intelligence transforms education, careers and daily life.

apnews.com

 

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Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, too

AI isn't just consuming the GPU market. It's eating storage, too — and the shockwaves are likely to hit both HDD and SSD markets

www.tomshardware.com

 

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I'm not crazy about it either. It's just too creepy.

 

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Facebook Flooded With Agitslop Of AI Grief Farming About Charlie Kirk

Last year, there was some talk about how AI-generated wacky images—summed up generally as “shrimp Jesus” as an example of one of the most bizarre—were taking over Facebook. It was only a matter of …

www.techdirt.com

 

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If Trump isn't making money, he makes sure his cronies will.

 

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AI buildouts need $2 trillion in annual revenue to sustain growth, but massive cash shortfall looms — even generous forecasts highlight $800 billion black hole, says report

A new Bain report says AI buildout will need $2 trillion in annual revenue just to sustain its growth, and the shortfall could keep GPUs scarce and energy grids strained through 2030.

www.tomshardware.com

 

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