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Interesting. It sounds like using local LLMs (via vllm, ollama, etc) with decent agentic capability might be starting to become a reality.

Next step, just need a shitload of vram. ;)

Maybe those Intel Battlematrix 48GB cards might be useful after all... :)

https://www.storagereview.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b60-battl...


> But I wonder if they are also just not ready to announce what they are doing with it?

Didn't they announce some kind of AI-silicon recently? Wouldn't it be for that?


Wonder if they'd rather have it go bad than let their competitors get it?

> It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about

It's raised the price of my in-progress workstation build by several thousand $, and now I'll likely not be able to build it. :(

I _really_ hope it's a "short term" price spike, but I kinda doubt it. :( :( :(


> The company said it does not have sensors under its vehicles, but noted that human-driven cars do not, either.

How incredibly fucking callous. :( :( :(

And their attempt to make out like people not having sensors under their vehicles is the same thing is even worse. People tend to have _awareness_ of WTF is around their vehicles because of stuff like this.

That can _sometimes_ not work out well, but it's completely different from Waymo (specifically here) not giving a fuck.


I tend to agree with your take.

Surely an undercarriage sensor array can be done on the cheap (engineering and retrofits aside) due to the required sensing distance being quite short.

Off the top of my head, it sounds like an area where ultrasonics and cameras would actually excel at (as opposed to replacing LIDAR for core functionality, which doesn't work very well as we've found out).

End of the day it's way cheaper than lawsuits.


I don’t get the outrage. If it is moral to eat animals it is strange to see outrage due to one cat dying from oversight.

This particular cat was clearly at "pet" level for the neighbourhood.

Pets are effectively family members, so Waymo's attitude is extremely wrong for the situation.


The resources required for putting AI <something> inline in the input (upload) or output (download) chain would likely dwarf the resources needed for the non-AI approaches.

> Samuel Woolley, a disinformation expert at the University of Pittsburgh, said the company’s wording was misleading. “Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence,” he said. “This is AI.”

It's the other way around isn't it? "AI" is a subset of ML.


Trust issues with someone who is "a disinformation expert" - at a university, no less?

You don't buy fresh alfalfa or corn?

Sounds like a journalist complaining about someone they're harassing being able to escape the harassment.

Not really sure this is news worthy?


Yeah. Avoid Hetzner.

I used to use and recommend them, but not any more. Screw them. :(


Yeah, German customer support is not very customer-facing ("customer is right" attitude does not exist).

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