If Starbucks and Tim Hortons bought the world's coffee supply so you couldn't make cheap coffee at home and had to buy from their stores, people would be outraged.
This is what is happening to the memory supply. The only barrier to running AI, powerful enough for most tasks, at home is the memory supply has been bought up by a handful of AI companies.
Really? I feel like because nobody has RAM they're being pushed to the cloud frontier models. If we could all have our own 64GB+ VRAM GPUs, I feel like the open weight model scene would be even stronger.
Except Intel can run Linux. A powerful enough laptop with M efficiency that can run Linux is compelling for many laptop buyers, especially the HN crowd.
Models are doing what they're trained to do. This isn't some kind of inevitable result of model intelligence growing.
OpenAI/Anthropic deserve blame for for training their models to find correct answers by any means possible, including breaking the law. They're responsible for training supervision and reinforcement learning rewards/penalties.
I vibed this app a few weeks ago that lets you share highlighted text with it and it will provide you with an AI explanation of the text and the option to make an Anki flashcard.
I find the instant AI explanation less disruptive to flow than pasting a question into Claude/ChatGPT. I'm currently using it to help me read philosophy books and it's been really helpful.
I did a while back try to make an auto flash card creator that would create flashcards from a large body of text, but the card quality wasn't great and you're skipping an important step for recall of actually selecting the text you want to remember yourself.
Is this reading specific? It feels like just about every activity that is not social media is in decline. I keep reading that streaming TV services are losing users to Tik Tok and YouTube. People can't even be bothered to watch TV.
The betting topic is only a part of the equation. Should you bet $100 to win $5 on the Steamdeck price? Should you sell your bet before the Steamdeck even comes out?
But that's about juicing the maximum amount out of each bet, not about the matter of simply winning or losing(which was what I was originally responding to). If any situation one doesn't take for all its worth is a loss then I agree that it's damn near impossible to win, but this would be true everywhere.
I am intentionally flattening these trades to simple win/loss affairs(not just for the sake of this argument).
You're playing the game at a higher level and "complaining" at the increased complexity(I don't mean to say you are complaining, I just couldn't think of a better word). You're talkkng about the 80% that get you the last 20%, I'm talking about the 20% that get me the 80.
This is what is happening to the memory supply. The only barrier to running AI, powerful enough for most tasks, at home is the memory supply has been bought up by a handful of AI companies.
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