If you think about it, they're splitting the power across millions of users. Essentially, these AI companies have YOUR hardware that YOU are paying (them) for in a cabinet at some data center. This means the hardware could easily be run locally for inference for these 'big' models. It's just a problem of dynamics-- RAM is being bought in bulk by these companies through these B200 style cards, instead of sold slowly through the open public markets.
This is likely due to a combination of mass funding for the AI companies, but also they are trying to governmentally restrict which countries get access to these cards so certain countries get a head start. The only way to lock that down is to have them literally locked in their own GPU prisons (data centers). Third reason is it does make it possible to train the models faster by having them in the same data center connected directly. Having them distributed to everyone would slow down training considerably.
The current way to 'own' decent RAM and GPUs right now is through the stock market it seems.
The main thing that sucks with Claude is the extremely low limits before you get fail2banned for 6 hours. I'm out. Refund requested. Grok and Gemini Pro are way better with the throttling, can't comment on ChatGPT, haven't used that for a year.
Recent year or two LibreOffice has improved greatly as far as the UX goes and I haven't had to use Word/Excel in decades. When I have to use it for work I use the online app and office online apps are also garbage, especially compared to Google Docs / Sheets stability and performance.
These laws just complicate things, make it more expensive to run a game company and these government people don't get it. This will just result in making it more expensive to make games and keep them running. On top of that, it incentivises subscription based games.
> 'it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely. It also prohibits the continued sale or distribution of games that have become unusable due to service termination.'
The only winners are lawyers. NOT gamers. The lawyers always like to call their laws "protect X" lol
What about map applications which manipulate the history to store the position of the map as users drag and release to make back and forward work to the users expectation in a single page app? It’s not malicious, but will Google flag it?
The biggest problem I have with DLSS 5 is how it completely upends and ruins the dynamic lighting that the developers spend a huge amount of time perfecting to set the perfect mood for the scene.
Instead of "should have been an email" this is "should have been a prompt" and can be run locally instead. There are a number of ways to do this from a linux terminal.
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write a custom crawler that will crawl every page on a site (internal links to the original domain only, scroll down to mimic a human, and save the output as a WebP screenshot, HTML, Markdown, and structured JSON. Make it designed to run locally in a terminal on a linux machine using headless Google Chrome and take advantage of multiple cores to run multiple pages simultaneously while keeping in mind that it might have to throttle if the server gets hit too fast from the same IP.
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Might use available open source software such as python, playwright, beautifulsoup4, pillow, aiofiles, trafilatura
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.