This week's newsletter is about AI's great bait-and-switch, where companies like OpenAI, Rabbit and Humane raise millions of dollars and make outlandish promises about the future, only to deliver a deeply mediocre version of the present. wheresyoured.at/expectations...
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple qu...
A ways down the post, you say "sorry to rant," but let me tell you Ed, I'm over here cheering at those rants because you're hitting the nail on the fucking head over and over. This AI bullshit hype machine is as exhausting as it is dumb, and we're better off with someone like you calling it out.
:) Ask ChatGPT to predict phases of the moon.
Thank you. Been beating on this drum every time corporate urges us to find ways to integrate this severely lacking (for now) tech into our workflows.
ed all those videos on youtube with 'reimagined' trailers starring actual actors that AI can literally grab millions of images from still have trouble showing the same face twice even if it is keanu reeves
OpenAI's generative video app Sora intends to replace filmmakers, yet despite a superficially impressive announcement, Sora takes 10-20 minutes to create 3 to 20 seconds of footage, with absolutely no idea what it'll spit out at the end. wheresyoured.at/expectations...
Ed, your newsletters are fantastic. Each one is a stemwinder. Thank you!
Thanks for these. I subscribed a while back and find it reassuring to read articulate thoughts from people who recognise the dystopian hellscape we're living through. Gives me a small glimmer of hope that one day we might be able to break free while Silicon Valley eats itself.
Just to mention because I know it's hard to get definitive pricing right now, but the A100 is woefully out of date. Its successor the H100 usually runs about $30,000 each, or more depending on supply problems. The Blackwell cards are going to be worse. One single loaded server costs $3,000,000.