I thought the #PitchMeetings guy got into 3d printing.

That’s a lot of SD cards! I was expecting something like rfid that I’ve seen with other mp3 players.

I have the death sentence in twelve systems

Robot Chicken covered that one.

The article said, “access to OpenAI”. They didn’t even claim they are using OpenAI.

And yes, you get Microsoft’s AI called CoPilot when you buy Microsoft Office. OMG, Israel’s elite strike team has access to Clippy!

I’m not trying to dilute their involvement. It’s like IBM during the Holocaust. Are you similarly angry at Linus for not stopping Israel from using Linux? There are many distros and many are used in Israel.

Calling out “Microsoft AI is killing Palestinians” when the only evidence is Israel bought MS Office is beyond ridiculous. Meanwhile the US and Europe sells Israel food which if stopped would stop the Gaza attacks immediately.

There are companies selling bullets and you are angry with what cologne the killers purchased.

And I don’t care how smart AI and specifically LLMs are. It’s a spell checker on steroids. Acting like it’s something extraordinary that is directly killing Palestinians is ridiculous.

I don’t see how the Israeli military purchasing Microsoft Office compared to purchasing AMD CPU’s s different. They chose Microsoft for the services on an open market just like they chose Arm CPU’s. And yes Arm engineers do “deep integration” with military contractors just like Microsoft provides services.

"The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in recent months " https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/

Azure is used for running Microsoft Office or whatever other PC software they use.

They all “directly partner” AMD, Intel, and Arm are all deep in Israeli military.

Using AI to target strikes/etc

Image recognition was around decades before LLM’s became the new “AI”. Those weapons only function because of the Arm, AMD and Intel CPUs components What hardware is Microsoft cloud running on?

You said you boycott all of them. How are you posting a reply?

They all kill children and I boycott them all.

You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.

Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel,

Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?

and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership

AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.

Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved

Are you an executive at Microsoft? Because if you aren’t YOU DON’T KNOW THAT.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107724-sources-detail-growing-rift-between-sam-altman-satya.html

https://lemmy.world/post/27174006

Saytalla seeking advice doesn’t mean Gates is making the business decisions.

And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.

Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft in 25 years. He left completely in 2008.

The problem is that the theft begins by simply becoming a billionaire in the first place.

That’s why that was my first sentence!

Why did you cut your philanthropic efforts to fight climate change and disease? Why have you and your buddies fought for minimizing

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/17/bill-gates-foundation-pledges-7-billion-to-support-africa-health-and-agriculture/

Could he do more? Sure. But attacking someone who is doing a little because he isn’t doing more doesn’t seem fair.

Years ago Elon said he was disappointed when he met Bill Gates because Gates only wanted to talk about philanthropy and climate.

I don’t own one but I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube on the Thermaltake 600. I like it because of the looks and vertical arrangement which should be better for lower fan speed while not overheating and no GPU bending.

But I’ll probably get a Fractal North because it reminds me of an Atari 2600.

GPL is a license that uses copyright law as enforcement.

I thought you meant actual copying like when Linus tech tips used some Gamer’s Nexus script word for word.

Stealing script and content is a copyright violation. It could be a lawsuit but is usually ignored because of legal costs.

If gta5 was the only game sold, it wouldn’t be an energy issue!

When an AI trains on data it isn’t copying the data, the model doesn’t “contain” the training data in any meaningful sense.

I’d say it can be a problem because there have been examples of getting AIs to spit out entire copyrighted passages. Furthermore, some works can have additional restrictions on their use. I couldn’t for example train an AI on Linux source code, have it spit out the exact source code, then slap my own proprietary commercial license on it to bypass GPL.

I addressed that in my second paragraph.

In another thread someone brought it up so I did some quick math to see if it was true:

Gta5 cost $300 million. 4000 developers each with the latest GPU burning hundreds of watts per employee to create the assets. A rough estimate of 750watt pc, 4,000 developers, 8 hour a day, 300 days a year, 5 years = 36 giga watt-hours. That’s the energy to power 3.6 million homes for a year and I’m not even including the HVAC costs of the office space. For 1 game.

AI training energy use is small in comparison. ChatGPT 4 cost $80m to train.

However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use.

Then that’s like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.

Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?

The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.