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• Is AI inference getting cheaper or more expensive over time?

  I’ve read some of Ed Zitron’s long posts on why the AI industry is a bubble that will never be profitable (and will bring down a lot of companies and investors), and one of the recurring themes is that the AI companies are trying to capture growing market share in an industry where their marginal profits are still negative, and that any increase in revenue necessarily increases their costs of providing their services. But some of the comments in various HackerNews threads are dismissive, sayin...

• Where the Goblins Came From - OpenAI explains why it has to suppress the tendency of its models to talk about goblins

• Post #591477

  I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC. I know bandwidth isn’t latency but for a thin client having a rock solid network connection to the virtual desktop server is pretty important for the user interface. I’m guessing pushing video and animations can require pretty high data rates, too.