It's also impossible to take those aforementioned breathless claims at face value with the absolutely absurd hype around AI. I'm not even arguing good or bad here, I'm just saying no one will shut up about this.
And it's still not AI, it's machine learning. Nothing wrong with that but when a product's name itself is already bullshit...
The offline learning is also a multi million dollar endeavor atm for most capable models. That does not take into account the cost of acquiring gpus.
Somehow all of this is missing from most articles.
I'm very happy people start pointing that out
> "Cloud" is also a stupid name for a managed datacenter/IAAS/PAAS
"Cloud computing" though as referred to datacenters makes a degree of sense, certainly more than calling GPT an actual mind.
And it seems pretty clear to me that based on the way these companies and their CEOs are leaning into fantasies of Skynet and such, that they're not only encouraging the conflation, but using it to sell the product. And by all means, sell your product, but if you open that conversation by lying to my face, don't expect to close a sale.