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xAI joins SpaceX 6 months ago

My question is how they'll update the hardware, if AI processors get outdated every 4-5 years? Or they will keep outdated satellites just for routing and Internet-related services?

My prediction: Google will win. Rationale: cost/token + pre-existing ad knowledge + APIs for third-party apps. My concern is how an OpenAI collapse could hurt Microsoft and Nvidia.

Empathy and humility are ok when shown by behavior, not when used as a "manipulative card" against "ego". E.g., when the "empathy card" is used to manipulate others in "you're an ego-driven person that always knows better than me". In my opinion there are less confrontative ways, e.g., a team lead handling the frictions with procedures, diplomacy, and other soft skills.

I used Dillo in 2001-2002 with the PlayStation 2 Linux kit. With 32MB of RAM for Linux, and 4MB for the graphics. It worked really well despite the CPU was 294MHz (MIPS R-5900, two-way in-order CPU, with SIMD unit, and only one hardware thread, having two auxiliary vector units as companions).

De-centralized computing is similar to what happened in IBM/Sony Cell CPU: independent SRAMs with an associated vector unit, doing transfers to the main/host DRAM via DMA using a high performance ring buffer. The benefit is simpler architecture, but more difficult software implementation, although for AI or graphics development behind an abstraction could be perfectly fine.

That should be a property of a web site. E.g. the web site using a property in the Cloudflare configuration. That way there would be competition between websites allowing or not IA agents on user accounts.