If you are going to swap the GPU, prices should be irrelevant, as you will get more money for your GPU when selling if they go up.

Chuckles in x200s with 8GB of RAM since 2009…

The modules yes, but ram is bought on the chip level. If the modules are never built, the chips can be reused in normal dimms.

Worst case we get a new HBM dimm format :D

Linux uses “free” ram for caching, so it’s not really wasted.

I bought my first apartment when interest rates were around 1% (the 2010s were wild). I paid 30% less every month to the bank than a comparable rent, utilities excluded in both.

On top of that, the payment was 40% interest and 60% went towards the principal, so basically investing.

To put it in numbers, imagine the apartment you like is 1000 euros a month in rent. You decide to buy. Now you pay 700 euros to the bank each month, of which 300 is interest and 400 is paying down the loan, so you will probably get it back if/when you sell it. You “lose” 300 euros am month instead of 1000.

Another example, buying a car to go to work (or any other tool). If you don’t have cash but need a car, getting a loan and being able to work is better than not having debt but being unable to work.

In the most German pedantic way: “in der Schule”

That’s not an alternative. In fact almost everything cloud already is Linux.

They are free to do all the things pre-approved by their governments!

Inefficiency is:

• irrelevant when we have too much energy on sunny or windy days

• not something to justify inaction

“my mind is made up”

Good thing we can have so much cheap abundant excess energy that at times it’s actually a problem for the grid!

That’s just a fancy way of saying they’re teenagers.

Why wouldn’t they? What they described is the bare minimum…

They are a transformer in the same sense ChatGPT is a transformer. And hence they do generate new content that share characteristics and patterns with existing one. It’s no clone tool. Lyrics are new. They probably follow the grammar rules of certain language, but it’s not copy paste. Chords will probably be shared, but melody is new. Etc.

You can’t always tell, I can’t always tell, bandcamp can’t always tell. And it’s only going to get harder.

Yes, I’m a bot. Here’s your cookie recipe!

No, I get it. It’s generative. GPT: Generative Pretrained Transformer. Music generators add a diffusion layer, but it’s fundamentally new music being generated, not copies of existing songs.

My point is that it’s just another tool, that automates it even more. It’s not the same, it’s the next step.

Ok, if this is just a spam prevention I think it’s fine. Obviously I didn’t read the article (as tradition mandates).

That’s not how transformer neural networks work…

I disagree on all counts.

It’s not exploitative, it doesn’t exploit anyone.

It’s not trash, and if it were you wouldn’t need to regulate it because people would reject it on the merits.

The space belongs to whoever wants to create art, with whatever tools they want to do it. Gatekeeping and true Scotsman arguments are really grasping.

I don’t know what “social value” is created. A nurse or a fireman create social value. You won’t see them worrying about AI. If AI could put out fires they would definitely be interested.