A “milestone” is getting more self driving vehicles on the road. When the bonus was announced last month, he redefined what Tesla means by “Self Driving”.

https://electrek.co/2025/09/05/tesla-changes-meaning-full-self-driving-give-up-promise-autonomy/#%3A~%3Atext=Tesla+now+considers+FSD+only%2Cimproved+and+approached+unsupervised+autonomy.

If doing more makes it better then regular docker desktop does that too. Or apt-get.

I don’t use either but they aren’t the same thing to suggest one is a substitute for the other. Omv has self hosting services that it installs for you. Dokploy is docker manager.

Techs like to deride sales and managers for incompetence. But Oracle is proof that salesmanship and suits can take garbage and make billions.

I remember around 1990 when Oracle handled their tech problems by making it illegal to review their product. ( You had to purchase their product to use it or be sued. And the purchase agreement required that you not publish a review of the product without their approval or be sued.)

https://huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais/common-corpus

What do you mean by Machiavellian? Your question would be like asking, are there any smartphone keyboards that aren’t Machiavellian. It’s a text prediction tool.

There won’t ever be a draft unless it’s a real war with China or equivalent. The US won Iraq without a draft.

This sort of happened when AWS crashed. I called in my order for my favorite Greek salad and they said they only took cash because payments were down. I fortunately had cash. While waiting for pickup, people came in and couldn’t order because they didn’t have cash.

Electricity and magnetism are the exact same thing. A non moving charge creates an observed static electric field. A moving charge creates an observed magnetic field. So if you were moving next to the charge as it went down a wire, you would see no charge moving. No charge moving means no magnetic field.

They only look different because things get distorted moving at near light speed relative to you. It would be like if we gave two different names to a police siren based on whether you were listening standing next to it or listening as it zoomed past you.

As the article describes, it wasn’t so much that the vacuum sent the map because it didn’t have the local processing to work without it. The problem was that their servers sent a remote kill packet to his vacuum whenever he blocked it from sharing his data. So his vacuum would completely stop until he sent it back for service.

Those of us elderly folks who lived through the 80s and 90s laugh at thisr AI shill propaganda.

Dude. I’m not only old but I worked for Vint Cerf and later was president of one of the companies mass mailing CD’s to everyone. I ran so many commercials on TV that I had a customer call up and say, “please stop!” Sports stadiums were named after ISPs. Road names were changed to names of ISPs. It was a massive advertising push because people were buying. The only thing that has outstripped Internet adoption rates is AI adoption rates which is why there’s an even bigger advertising push.

I have tried AI but don’t generally use it. I don’t use Facebook either. But I’m not going to pretend people don’t use Facebook because I don’t like it and don’t use it.

All platforms that have viewers become a propaganda outlet.

You mean it started with Marvel movie marketing?

It’s in the standard elementary school curriculum.

They learn Scratch where you drag and drop code blocks to build a flowchart.

The more I think about it the more I can’t think of any practical use for generative AI

It really does improve productivity. The problem is thinking a spell checker on steroids will do your job (the mistake both employees and employers make).

a very large amount of people being excited about it.

A very large amount of people are excited by AI. People were excited by pet rocks.

I use DuckDuckGo to find sources, not answers.

DuckDuck is Bing with privacy. When you get a Google AI summary it lists links to read the source.

AI was around for 50 years old before Copilot invaded everything.

Yes it seems to be nonsense. Yes the universe has non algorithmic knowledge. All the universal constants and theories fall into that category. The speed of light is 2.99x10^8 m/s and constant in all reference frames. That’s what it is. There’s no algorithm to derive it. (Yes you can use other universal constants to get c but it’s the same deal.)

I referenced training above. Training cost is less than developer costs. Thousands of artists on high end PCs in office space use more energy than a data center. But no one notices because people are spread out across offices.

I didn’t realize Fortnite was played mainly on other platforms!

Fortnite’s player base is only about 10% PC,

PlayStation 42.2% Xbox 28.8% Nintendo Switch 12% PC 11% Mobile (iOS, Android) 6%

https://millionmilestech.com/fortnite-user/#%3A~%3Atext=continue+reading+below.-%2CFortnite+Player+Count%2C(as+of+October+2023).

PS5, Xbox are both 200+ watts.

So assuming Mobile and Nintendo Switch power use is 0, and all PCs only use 200 watts, that’s still 8,000,000,000 watts. For 1 game.

it wouldn’t be pushed on us

The Internet was pushed on everyone. AOL and all other ISPs would mail CDs to everyone completely unsolicited. You’d buy a new PC and there would be a link to AOL on the desktop.

how can it be trusted without human verification

You use Google despite no human verification. Yahoo used to function based on human curated lists.

environmental impact

I did the math and posted it on Lemmy. The environmental footprint of AI is big but actually less than the cost to develop a new 3d game ( of which hundreds come out every year). Using AI is the same energy as playing a 3d game.

I see people pointing fingers at data centers the same as car riders looking at the large diesel smoke coming out of a bus and assuming buses are a big pollution source. There are 100M active Fortnite players. An average gaming PC uses 400w. That means Fortnite players alone use 40,000,000,000 watts.

It is a problem because it’s like now everyone is playing 3d games all the time instead of only on their off time.