Circus maneuvres. Real life roads are much more complicated to have the car act exactly as it should in time to prevent accidents or to have some fun time jumping around.
This is not a flying car but a jumping and landing car.
I'm not an Elon hater.
I'm just telling you the Honest Truth:
This is a marketing stunt.
The technology is quite old.
Just nobody ever thought of bolting it on a car.
Because it's pointless.
Porsche or Ferrari could also build something like this if they wanted, but they don't, because it's not worth it for them.
It's worth it for Elon though, because his entire brand is all about having the halo of futurism.
His marketing scales especially well with tech gimmicks like this, which is why he is financially incentivised to do them, while others aren't.
Again, I'm not hating, but actually educating yall.
This is not engineering genius.
It's marketing genius.
@untimelysalts Today, instead of paying the doctors, people in developed countries pay health insurers or the state through taxes, and when they are sick, either they pay some of the cost or they are fully covered.
But if they paid the doctors directly, who will get how much?
@untimelysalts@finite_mode Do you respect them or you just don't care? Also when you say 'like children', does age always decide when a human is a child and when is not? I mean, some people who are 'mentally ill' don't have their brains developed, so they could think like children.
@untimelysalts My intution says, those who side with the tiger don't feel any empathy for the tiger either, meaning they don't care whether the tiger feels well in the 'cage' or not. They simply don't care for both parties, but since the human happened to be weaker, they side with the stronger.
Let's all take a moment to understand how self-serving it is for OpenAI, Anthropic and other execs of big hyperscalers to talk of slowing things down.
1. LLMs are not AI and won't be AGI. There is nothing AI to slow down.
2. Competition is coming up fast, slowing benefits incumbents.
3. IPOs need hype & puffery; "we are so awesome it could become dangerous" is hype & puffery
4. Cover for real uncontrollable slowing growth as IPOs look to be pushed out
All the regulations being floated by frontier model companies must be viewed through the lens of them losing tokens to Open-Source models.
The timing of these regulations seems to line up perfectly with Open Source closing the gap significantly (but not completely) — and @nvidia going all in on open source in the last 60 days.
If we’re gonna regulate, why don’t we require that last year’s frontier models and weights be open-sourced?
It wasn't because they couldn't get the money needed to hold their positions. They were 80% up year to date. They could just have de-leveraged if that was the issue (it wasn't).
I believe that they did the right thing. Time will tell.
$GOOG
If you think increasing CapEx will give you a better model and destroy the competition, think again.
Kimi AI showed that you don't need the largest amount of compute to build a better model.
$GOOGL, change your approach, stop burning so much money.
If had the ear @JDVance@realDonaldTrump@DonaldJTrumpJr@GovRonDeSantis@LeaderJohnThune, I would ask them to take a trillion dollars (since trillions just get thrown around like millions now) and bypass all the protests and regulations and dot the whole country with small nuclear reactors, while also building a brand-new, state-of-the-art grid for everyone. Do this as soon as possible and secure it all from attack with the latest physical and cybersecurity; maybe even create a special Nuclear Defense Force that protects each facility, funded federally.
This is the only hope of getting enough power to keep up with China, and it is the only hope we have as a country to grow enough to ultimately pay off our debt and guarantee long-term security, by not letting power be a limiting factor on our innovation.