I think this is the only business model that makes sense, monetarily, for current LLM CapEx and OpEx. The value is not in what it can do for consumers or how much money it makes, but how it can shape consumers through knowledge control. Think of how much a totalitarian government would pay to keep citizens from thinking certain things.
>Morpheus: You believe it’s the year 1999 when in fact it’s closer to 2199. I can’t tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don’t know. There’s nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo.
I went on a grand jury in early 2025, and it was eye opening to see that under my state's laws the "smell of weed" is enough to justify a traffic stop and search of a vehicle.
Human learning relies on movement. We learn as we navigate the world and interact with objects as noted by Jeff Hawkins in "A Thousand Brains".
It may be an AI will also require this ability, either via simulation or a robotic interface. Will an AI then also lose its train of thought when it walks through a doorway and context (reference frame) switches?
SSD installs were, for the longest time, the single best ROI on upgrading a laptop. I think a SATA SSD in that 2012 bad boy could considerably boost its performance.
I still do this for friends and family: put in an SSD and maybe add a bit of RAM.
Either, clone the OS or else do a fresh install. The old drive goes into a USB enclosure if it's a laptop.
It feels like a brand new computer, going from minutes to seconds to do anything.
(Going from a Raspberry Pi 4 on a MicroSD to a pi5 with an nvme drive is a similar night and day difference. The pi5 feels like a snappy modern computer. Previous pis always felt slow.)
I agree, but the incentives for Alphabet to encourage content like this isn't there. The content that is encouraged is that which keeps eyeballs glued to YouTube.
