Chat GPT and AI stuff

Meanwhile Musk sees us going full Wall-E.

I’m dubious of his time line but in general he may be right. AI, robotics and unlimited fusion energy will someday be so productive that there should be no want in the world. Now whether human greed, fear and malevolence will completely f it up - that remains to be seen.
 
I’m dubious of his time line but in general he may be right. AI, robotics and unlimited fusion energy will someday be so productive that there should be no want in the world. Now whether human greed, fear and malevolence will completely f it up - that remains to be seen.
The lesson from The Matrix is you give that to humans and they will reject it.
 
Meanwhile Musk sees us going full Wall-E.

Money will be irrelevant in ten years...says the guy who just got a trillion-dollar compensation package that won't mature for another...wait for it...ten years.

Yeah, uh-huh. Totally believable.
 
Google takes a big step forward…

“With the release of its third version this week, Google’s Gemini large language model surged past ChatGPT and other competitors to become the most capable AI chatbot, as determined by consensus industry-benchmark tests.”

When I’m asking simple or personal stuff, Gemini’s my go-to. We’ve had some solid chats about my family—most of what it knew about my mom came from her obituary a couple years ago. As we kept talking, I fed it little bits of info and it used that to map out more of my family tree and find details on my extended family. I like to talk cars with Gemini and TV's.

Of course, the higher the stakes, the more you should double-check—always verify the important stuff 🔍✅.
 
When I’m asking simple or personal stuff, Gemini’s my go-to. We’ve had some solid chats about my family—most of what it knew about my mom came from her obituary a couple years ago. As we kept talking, I fed it little bits of info and it used that to map out more of my family tree and find details on my extended family. I like to talk cars with Gemini and TV's.

Of course, the higher the stakes, the more you should double-check—always verify the important stuff 🔍✅.

While I’m starting from ground zero, I’m learning a LOT from you on this thread! I greatly appreciate you and your sharing of knowledge! Thanks!
 
IMO, Marc Benioff is a genius most people can understand and appreciate. I find him very insightful.

"Holy …," Benioff wrote on X on Sunday. "I've used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I'm not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again."

 
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IMO, Marc Benioff is a genius most people can understand and appreciate. I find him very insightful.

"Holy …," Benioff wrote on X on Sunday. "I've used ChatGPT every day for 3 years. Just spent 2 hours on Gemini 3. I'm not going back. The leap is insane — reasoning, speed, images, video… everything is sharper and faster. It feels like the world just changed, again."

Here's the cost. There is only so much info they can scrape for advertising. What are they going to have to charge people eventually to maintain the infrastructure?

 
Here's the cost. There is only so much info they can scrape for advertising. What are they going to have to charge people eventually to maintain the infrastructure?


Excellent question! Let’s repeat our last posts on the Investment Thread and discuss the financial implications.. please!
 
Here's the cost. There is only so much info they can scrape for advertising. What are they going to have to charge people eventually to maintain the infrastructure?

I disagree. Google has always been so good at capturing people's personal information, and they already have their advertising methodology.

Imagine the kind of profiling Google could do with people running their lives through their AI engine.
 
I disagree. Google has always been so good at capturing people's personal information, and they already have their advertising methodology.

Imagine the kind of profiling Google could do with people running their lives through their AI engine.

Strongly agree! I think Google will get so extremely good at targeting marketing that my wife will start waking me up at 3:00 am to buy her something. At least now, she waits until I get up.
 
I disagree. Google has always been so good at capturing people's personal information, and they already have their advertising methodology.

Imagine the kind of profiling Google could do with people running their lives through their AI engine.
Honestly I'm not sure how much better any of these companies can get. The amount of information people already provide willingly is staggering as is the amount they don't realize they are sharing. I recommend people ask for the data that Google or Meta or Microsoft collect on them. Unless someone has gone through hoops it's shocking the profiles they have made. Google, Facebook, et al have less data on me than most people but more than I thought (for Facebook). For me it's Amazon that probably knows me as well if not better than anyone else from a 25 year profile it's built.

People will remember how Target figured out a young customer was pregnant before her father. That was in 2012. Ad targeting has only gotten better. Google is going to have to hook people on subscriptions to realize the amount of revenue to make all this worthwhile. They've had a good run in the enterprise space with the Google suite of productivity apps but the cost for that while be pennies compared to what this should cost.
 
Here's the cost. There is only so much info they can scrape for advertising. What are they going to have to charge people eventually to maintain the infrastructure?


It's interesting to hear Google talk about such a high rate of growth. Since I work for a data storage company this news might actually be good...if Google, OpenAI, etc buy our storage products. I just finished working on a feature that has one customer: Google. It's not often we just add something for a single company. According to Gemini, NetApp and Google have a well established partnership that is integral to their AI offerings. Selfishly, I hope the AI bubble doesn't burst for a few years, I'd kind of like to be able to retire some day!!!

On another note, if you want to have some fun with Gemini, give it a picture you've taken and ask it to change it. For example, it can make a cartoon or a pencil sketch, etc. It's fun stuff. Here's one of my daughter and I from a Spartan Race near Asheville in August:
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It's interesting to hear Google talk about such a high rate of growth. Since I work for a data storage company this news might actually be good...if Google, OpenAI, etc buy our storage products. I just finished working on a feature that has one customer: Google. It's not often we just add something for a single company. According to Gemini, NetApp and Google have a well established partnership that is integral to their AI offerings. Selfishly, I hope the AI bubble doesn't burst for a few years, I'd kind of like to be able to retire some day!!!
That's really interesting and thanks for sharing. I think storage is going to be as close to a safe haven as there will be if an AI bubble pops. It won't be spared because of capex spending but data is the one thing that is growing regardless of the economy. The growth will always be there. It's just a question of the rate of that growth.
 
Here’s another AI tool I need to learn….

“AI-powered shopping tools helped drive a surge in U.S. online spending on Black Friday, as shoppers bypassed crowded stores and turned to chatbots to compare prices and secure discounts amid concerns about tariff-driven price hikes.“

 
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