Because by it’s very nature, recycling always costs more than first-round-use products. It takes more energy and more time to recycle goods into something else.
Further, it’s a misnomer, because many, many, many, many plastics flat out cannot be recycled into anything else no matter how much we wish it so.
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If I was a Cisco investor, I’d be looking to move my money elsewhere. All these companies laying people off, shuttering whole ass teams, and replacing them with non-proprietary and, frankly, unproven LLMs are going to blow their own legs off here pretty soon. I have a feeling that a pretty dramatic change is AI pricing models is coming soon, since all of these companies are providing access to their models for a fraction of the cost to run them, and the VCs are going to want their money back. Is chatGPT good enough at, what is it, 0.004 cents a token? Maybe, I guess, if the ghost of quality control doesn’t haunt you at night. Is chatGPT still good enough at 0.1 cents a token or more, or with surge pricing models? I sincerely doubt it. If openAI implements surge pricing, stay on the lookout for articles about some company or user getting a surprise bill for a million dollars, AWS-style. Given the current quality of LLMs, I don’t think that the cost shakes out for what you get.
Before we get to pricing, I’d like to see any successful use case in a corporate environment? Not one that’s sort-of working, or obe that hasn’t panned out yet - just a successful, implemented, customer-facing example.
Good point. I think a bigger problem than the customer facing AIs is going to be the internal ones that make shit up. Someone on here claimed to be working somewhere where they gutted their HR department and replaced them almost completely with an LLM that was fed their documents. They claimed the AI had already told them several blatantly illegal things. Any company that does that is just begging to get sued to death, and I’m sure the investors will be reeeeeaaaaal happy with the, what, 1% they saved by killing HR? I mean, HR aren’t the good guys here, but just imagine a company being brain dead enough to say “hey, let’s get rid of the people that keep us from getting sued to death and replace it with a chatbot lmao”.
And here I thought that outsourced “HR” folks were a travesty.
Had a small payroll issue recently having to do with some time off and a misunderstanding by the (outsourced) HR folks, was able to speak with enough people who understood one segment or another of the (rather complex) scenario to get it resolved in a couple of days.
AI would be a hard fail in that application, guaranteed.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced a hiring pause in May, but that’s not all. Later that month, the CEO also stated the company plans to replace nearly 8,000 jobs with AI.
Krishna noted that back-office functions, specifically in the human resources (HR) sector, will be the first to face these changes. In recent weeks, the company has opened up dozens of positions for AI-based roles to help develop and maintain these systems.
Now that I think about it - that explains a few things . . .
At least one giant multi-national corp is actively soliciting examples and use cases from their employees.
“Toy” example submissions is fine, the company is just so eager for something to do with AI - they’re hoping for their actual AI folks to be able to take off of that uncompensated IP, while the employee with the idea gets a pat on the head.
Have I had ideas I might otherwise submit and that are well within my capabilities to implement at “toy” level? Hell, yes.
Do I want to contribute concepts into that sort of pipeline? Absolutely not. Not when they more or less automatically own my work product and whatever I do on company time already.
My landlord is old and as poor as I am so when trees fall she’ll have someone chop it up and they take what they want, but most of the large branches are left. It’s been a few years now that a couple of trees fell and since the branches are left there the landscaper just goes around them and the area has become an awesome natural growth spot. I hope she never gets it removed!
Even more hopeful: a sudden change implies a common trigger and maybe something can be done about that trigger (sorry if the article answered it, I didn’t read)
No. The Palestinians have a land dispute because they’ve been ethnically cleansed from their land, bit by bit, by Israel over the last 70 years. They receive arms because their allies believe Palestinians shouldn’t be subjected to apartheid and genocide.
The most Iran gets from the situation is less refugees because the Palestinians will eventually succeed and get their land back. This would improve the stability of the region, as most countries in the Middle East agree that a country with a history of fighting wars to steal other peoples’ land (as Israel has done) is a threat to all other countries in the region.
Iran doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinians or their land, they are only supplying aid to weaken Israel.
Less refugees? Iran doesn’t have ANY Palestinian refugees. www.unhcr.org/ir/refugees-in-iran/Iran(Farsi) doesn’t even speak the same language that Palestinians (Arabic) use.
If all the countries in the region think war is bad, why did most of them invade Israel literally the day after the British Protectorate left because they were not happy with the UN agreed upon borders? They only got mad when Israel turned the tables and absolutely kicked their asses.
The reason Israel keeps getting attacked is because it’s a colony that seeks to create a regional empire. The reason they didn’t lose is because Egypt halted their forces instead of pushing for victory.
The entire region WAS a regional empire immediately before Israel existed, the Ottoman Empire. They picked the wrong side in the world war and got broken up afterwards as a result.
“Seek to create a regional empire” is also false, they gave back a ton of land that they conquered after the initial invasion because they didn’t actually want it.
A decent Jewish presence has existed in that exact location for thousands of years, which kills your “it’s a colony” theory.
If a state created by foreign Jews stealing and re-settling stolen land does not meet the definition of colonialism, then colonies do not exist.
The same can be said about the intentional bombing of civilians and wholesale slaughter of Palestinians during this war. If this is not genocide, then there is no such thing as genocide.
If we believe your lies, then we live in a world where actions cannot be described and words mean nothing.
Created by foreign jews? That entirely depends on the timeline you’re talking about. Jewish people had been living in that region for literally thousands of years, but there was a large migration of jews to the area when they got pushed out of Russia in the 1800s, and another large bunch that moved there during the second world war (for obvious reasons). They moved there BECAUSE there was already Jewish people there, and for historical reasons because the entire area (and more) is referenced as the Kingdom of Israel in the Torah, which was written a few thousand years before. Can you colonize a land that was yours to begin with but that got taken from you?
To add insult to injury, if that’s your definition, then Gaza is a colony too. Very few people over 40 were actually born there, a lot of them moved there from the surrounding countries (Primarily Egypt) when Egypt invaded and took control of that region.
See this is exactly what they mean when they say abortions are Healthcare. Pro-birth ideologies often even lead to less fertility as seen here. If I ever get in touch with my parents again I’ll tell them I’m willing to offer my eggs to a cousin or something with infertility, but my mother has to write me a letter thanking me for having the strength to not listen to her bad advice and get an IUD anyway, because it turns out I’ve had endometriosis for 15 years and the IUD is the reason it didn’t run rampant and the reason I would still have eggs to give them.
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