But is it? If it’s cheap enough latency doesn’t matter. Unlike say cloud gaming, where latency does matter. I’ll take my games local and my text bots cloud
Of course. People are valuing privacy now, and it's almost inevitable that humans will seek to have more agency over a social contact, even if it's an artificial one.
The first three are starting to get more closely associated with privacy.
Convenience: if I want information from a chatbot, I don't want to have to hear how I can save on my car insurance by switching to another insurance company. That's basically what websites have become. Go to any American local news station's site. It's just wallpapered with ads and you'll inevitably get a popup asking to subscribe. I don't want that from my chatbot.
Cheapness: this doesn't matter over the long run because inevitably, both straight-up monetary payment and revenue generated by invading privacy become part of the service providers' revenue streams, if they don't start out that way. Cable TV used to be ad-free, as did streaming services. Then there was a need to fund the coke habits of some finance guys in Lower Manhattan, so ads were introduced as a "free" tier. Now there's only "reduced" ads on the paid tier, and you still fork over your data to let service providers give advertising clients a better profile of you.
Safety: identity thieves, stalkers, and even government agents acting against the law use commercial data sources to do things they otherwise couldn't. Imagine what they could glean from chatbot or other AI sources.
If you're your own LLM service provider, none of this is a problem.
Well not all artificial sweetener is the same. Some people get gut stuff from sugar alcohols, but I don’t believe that’s been observed in Aspartame. I drink a good amount of Diet Coke, because it’s delicious, and I never get any stomach pain or digestive issues from it. I get more digestive troubles from coffee.
Statistically a fire is more likely to burn your 1 copy than the data center I bet. Ideally you have both, that survives almost anything outside thermonuclear war
In the goal of the math problems to get the answers or think for years on a complicated topic? It’s the same Q developers have. Are they paid to type code or create programs?
As a not math person, seems strictly good that AI can solve more problems. If they were important, it can maybe unlock new science. If they had no useful purpose, why did we think about them for years?
The goal is more to understand why something is true than just whether it is true. To oversimplify a lot, it's the difference between industry versus academic motivation. In the former case you have a point, but not so much in the latter. We really need both modes of work going on.
> As a not math person, seems strictly good that AI can solve more problems.
As a math person I think that's probably true, though it's not that simple. We do still have to understand the solutions to the problems, and take time to explore. That's how we figure out what problems should be solved in the first place. Cognitive debt is bad enough in your codebase, but you don't really want it to overwhelm entire academic disciplines.
> If they had no useful purpose, why did we think about them for years?
I don't see a 'we' here. By your own admission you didn't spend years thinking about complicated math topics. So maybe you simply don't see the "purpose". Or maybe no one sees the purpose yet because for some math practical applications take years to discover.
The goal of math is perhaps the answer but also the understanding. One can't use the answers without understanding them, which is a fundamental difference between math and a program. Most modern math isn't applicable in the sense that you just take some result and it gives something practical. The value of math is in understanding it so that it can be properly applied which requires a deep knowledge of why it is so in the first place.
> If they had no useful purpose, why did we think about them for years?
A lot of mathematics is mostly useless, and probably will be for hundreds of years. Some of it ends up being useful, but it's unlikely that much of math like work on geometric langlands will have any applications whatsoever. Math is a service department and the way people teach math best is to be experts in it. In turn, the best way to do that is to develop new math, at least within the context of academia.
Yes, there is some pure math that is used eventually, but I'd say (as someone who worked in pure math for over a decade) that as the results become more specialized and abstract over time, fewer and fewer of them will ever be used.
Every once in a while you see a news article about some math related to physics or something but that's 1/1000 results, if that. The fact is, most modern math research is likely never to be "used".
That doesn't make it useless because maybe we just want to know, but we have to be realistic here...
Sure they can, you can buy a CCS adapter. You are limited a bit by 400V, but honestly I have never been able to not find a Tesla charger - and I’ve done 100k miles around the US over the last 5 years
Plug & Charge, referring to the ability to Plug in and automatically process payment, is what I am referring to.
Tesla cannot Plug & Charge on any non-Tesla network. Whereas other vehicles can Plug & Charge on Tesla networks. Therefor, the advantage is to everyone else.
Teslas have poor charging curves and are not cutting edge for charging performance. They are average.
Depends on distance and size, there is a lovely chart. My projector at 10 feet away is night and day difference at 4k. Mathematically 8k should look identical, so I haven’t spent the money to try it to confirm.
The 1080p thing is true in the age of 40” TVs but not so much now, think Costco has a 95” TV if not 100”.
I can definitely tell the difference between 1080 and 4k on my 55inch at around the recommended viewing distance. Less so on a 42 inch. A 4k image will look good even on a projector, as you say.
Personally I think 4k (with HDR) is good enough for consumer use, so agree with the parent theoretically just not quantitatively.
It did take around 20 years from DVD to 4k Bluray though.
