What did they win? If that works, they were right and deserved to get their way. If it doesn’t, thousands more jobs will disappear as they figure out how they ended up in this metaphorical smoking crater.

If you like spoilers, its going to be the latter.

I wonder how they expect to build all these data centers with the supply chain they’re collapsing. 😅

I. Am. Not. Talking. About. Personal. Computers.

I am talking about electronic NON-COMPUTER devices that use computer CHIPS.

They are not going to recycle an old graphics card to build a weather radar, and it doesn’t matter how fast computers were 10 years ago when building a new elevator.

I’m saying that every modern everything needs those chips and they’re using them only for one industry, and every other industry, including but not limited to computers, is heavily impacted by that.

I was somewhat surprised not to see a service cancelation announcement by the end of the article.

But they’re using the hell out of it, too, right? They’re exactly the types of people that love and use it the most: managers and owners.

You remind me of this dog I knew. 😂

What about the literally everything else I mentioned though? Those semiconductors are in everything, not just personal computers and gaming consoles.

Something’s got to give at some point here. Everything from computers to phones to cash registers to traffic signals need these components and are costing more due to the shortages, despite production remaining high.

The world is going to have to decide if it is worth putting the entire modern world on a pricing hold to funnel all the memory into speculative markets.

They don’t even really “remember” at all in any meaningful sense. They log the conversation history, but they are only acting while they are responding to an input or program, and are otherwise idle awaiting further inputs. They lack agency beyond responding to those inputs.

I think we will really be talking AI when you have more autonomous agents that are capable of deciding what actions to take from a list of their creation, and capably performing those actions. To be clear, there is no technology even on the drawing board that is capable of anything like these capabilities that I’m aware of.

Generally speaking for routers, if you can get it at Best Buy, it is of poor quality, and if you can’t, it requires more expertise to use than most people have.

The quality of the router is not the biggest problem, though. Many routers now phone home and require you to provision them through the company portal, which strongly indicates they’ve got a back door to your traffic if they want it, and if you read their ToS, they give themselves permission to use it.

I’m not suggesting they’re hacking you or doing identity theft, but they are looking over your shoulder for things they can learn about you to make money, and in the future, they could potentially make money by collecting government bounties, since they’ll know who millions of people are and where they live.