Because 10K satellites have a FAR greater combined surface area than a single space-borne DC would. Stefan-Boltzman law: ability to radiate heat increase to the 4th power of surface area.
Also worth noting that if computing power scales with volume then surface area (and thus radiation) scales like p^2/3. In other words, for a fixed geometry, the required heat dissipation per unit area goes like p^1/3. This is why smaller things can just dissipate heat from their surface, whereas larger things require active cooling.
I'm not a space engineer but I'd imagine that smaller satellites can make due with a lot of passive cooling on the exterior of the housing, whereas a shopping-mall sized computer in space would will require a lot of extra plumbing.
Yes. It's endlessly fascinating to me that so many people have such strong opinions on how other people should spend their money, what they should prioritise, etc. Like, what are you doing buddy? Made any donations to the foundation? Contributed to improving the source code (even via formal bug reports etc)? No? I'm shocked. People love to be invested in things until it costs them more than a comment in an internet forum.
1. I vaguely recall that in the early days of Windows, the TOS explicitly told users they were not to use it for certain use-cases and the wording was something like "we don't warranty windows to be good for anything, but we EXPLICITLY do not want you to use Windows to do nuclear foo".
I expect that if the big LLM vendors aren't already doing this, they soon will. Kind of like how Fox News claims that some of heads on the screen are not journalists at all but merely entertainers (and you wouldn't take anything they say seriously ergo we're not responsible for stuff that happens as a result of people listening to our heads on the screen).
2. IANAL but I believe that in most legal systems, responsibility requires agency. Leaving aside that we call these things "agents" (which is another thing I suspect will change in the marketing), they do not have agency. As a result they must be considered tools. Tools can be used according to the instructions/TOS, or not. If not - whatever it does is down to you. If used within guidelines - it's the manufacturer.
So my conclusion is that the vendors - who have made EPIC bets on getting this tech into the hands of as many folks as possible and making it useful for pretty much anything you can think of - will be faced with a dilemma. At the moment, it seems like they believe that (just like the infamous Ford bean counters) the benefits of not restricting the TOS will far outweigh any consequences from bad things happening. Remains to be seen.
I have said for many years that in the distant future, historians (those privileged by their patrons to claim the freedom of unfettered research), will read about the brief spasm in history, climaxing in the latter half of the 20th century, in which for half the globe, autocracy, dictatorship and absolute monarchy gave way to a system in which the proletariat believed they had (and amazingly in many circumstances actually had) the freedom to be, to think, to live, to flourish - largely as they wished! Those historians will wonder how this chaotic anarchy managed to not only survive, but momentarily flourish before the immense pressure of history brought about the reversal to the mean: the autocrats ruling, precious few flourishing at their feet, and the rest subsisting sullenly.
That's just history though, a paucity of human existence committed to script, nothing at all of, say, 70K years of libertarian utopia in post-Sahul, just the tantalising remnants of pre digital Instagram real silicon party posts.
Good for him! The time for negotiation is before the war, not after you've been utterly destroyed. For him to give in to the slave-owning south having won a civil war at such high cost, would have been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
No. DDG has done no such thing. They've provided a shortcut (via a dedicated URL) for those who want to avoid AI answers in search. They are absolutely still providing AI answers as defined by user settings (defaulting to "Sometimes"). Just not via this specific URL.
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