They can't do that today? Wow.

ChatGPT is at least one step removed from the actual source material, and ChatGPT isn't trying to be "right." You should just bypass ChatGPT and go to actual source material instead of asking a language AI to try to summarize it for you, knowing that it will often confidently present you with wrong information.

Which makes me wonder about the hardware. What’s the point with the kind of hardware that exists these days.

Build every console or PC with an i9-13900k and an rtx 4090. Put a big enough drive inside or allow drive swapping/upgrading. 64gb of 6000 speed ram, And you literally have 4k gaming for the rest of your life.

I have an rtx 3080 and an i9-9900k at 5ghz and I don’t expect to have to upgrade for at least 10 years.

Knock a full letter grade or check mark or whatever off their assignments.

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> They are, still, a mass production economy of low/medium tech

It was the case a decade ago, but not today, they are now a huge major hub for high end and deep tech industry.

Also the theft complain isn't so true anymore as some major peer reviewed reports pointed out that they are now the one publishing the most internationally cited studies.

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-rises-first-place-most-cited-papers

That’s a legacy advantage.

If you have to invest in who will develop the best tech in the next 20 years, where are you putting your money?

Wear a mask and sunglasses?

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So far the only downside of what people are laughingly calling AI these days is the endless flood of shit articles using it to scour for clicks, and the people who read them and take them as gospel.

Everything China is trying to steal or copy.

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Why bother learning or even going to school?

It’s not like it could be used as an assassination tool or get into the wrong hands. Pair it with AI and let it go fully autonomous. (/s)

It works well for animation. I tried out an old 480p movie and there is a noticeable increase in sharpness and detail.

Someone in the comments has info that it is coming later to 20 series.

Humans are emotional and may fail at the task.

This just isn't the case. China's operating model (esp. with regard to R&D) has immense inertia thanks to its state-controlled mandates and investment decisions. They aren't the ones pushing the envelope here. They are, still, a mass production economy of low/medium tech. And even that they are losing an edge on, as more and more shifts to Vietnam and Mexico (which they are trying to get a slice of through direct and indirect (shell) company takeovers). For all the tech blueprints they're stealing, they still don't have the advanced fabrication facilities, the laser tech, or many of the raw capabilities and resources needed.

I'm trying to find the deck from a great JP Morgan analysis on this that I attended a while back, but suffice to say China's main threats are their military pressure on key regional allies/supply partnerships, and their constant theft of technology polluting the market with vastly inferior (but highly consumed) goods.

Economically and strategically are they a threat? Yes. Technologically? Not yet, and with less and less concern the more we re-shore and lock down this advanced stuff. Grinding simple laborers into dust for mass production only really helps them churn cheap and shitty plastic widgets that consumerist Americans gobble up via Amazon, Etsy, and eBay. Future tech (military, processing/computing/AI, energy, etc) will be governed by things China simply doesn't yet have an edge on.

This is great for the US and Europe, because as we monopolize the development of AI and true next-gen automation, we can re-shore production and 'buy American', as our robo army of crazy neural network 'brains' will increasingly provide for us. Our one hurdle (beyond pro-competitive AI rollout/availability) is then the supply chain partnerships we develop. Steel, etc we still rely on China, so we'd need to find a way to patch in a new middle man...which we're trying with Vietnam where possible.

Also, Mighty's response isn't the most useful. Patent spam isn't a great metric for true quality of invention. China can churn hundreds of thousands of throw-away patents while the US might only file for 1/4 as many but put forth far more meaningful/impactful innovations.

I'm not a fan of security footage deliberately falling in the hands of someone who helped stoke a terrorist attack. Releasing it to Carlson will do nothing but make it easier for them to be successful next time. It's pretty fucked up that a third of Americans support domestic terrorists.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wood-pellets-bc-forests-green-energy-1.6606921

MICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS. link

Even if that were true (which I don't believe was the case), that actually gets to my original point: that TNG suffered less from this issue due to its greater use of physical models, whereas the bulk of later-season DS9 exterior shots were CG. TNG simply had a greater proportion of practical effects - shot on film - than CGI effects than DS9, and DS9 more than Voyager. For example, the only appearance of a CGI model for the Enterprise D (edit: on TV) was in DS9 - the model never appeared in TNG, and every exterior shot of the Enterprise in that series was a physical model. Meanwhile, in DS9, by the later seasons most of the Defiant's exterior shots were CGI (and those that weren't were mostly stock footage from prior seasons).

The TNG remaster made significant use of new CGI, or substantially updated CGI, where the base assets had to be updated. They were often not starting from scratch, but in no sense just re-rendering. Moreover, many assets were created brand new from scratch because the base assets were considered unacceptable (wide shots of planets, for example, are the most common, as well as some whole characters like the crystalline entity).

Cutting edge semiconductor technology. We are very ahead, and China is still struggling to access the means (resources, blueprints/patents, skilled labor, etc) of high-tech production and R&D that we have.

Their pseudo-capitalism under a controlled state lugs immense inertia and they're paying for it. Theft of IP has so far been their only valuable card, and we're trying very hard to make that harder for them.

The most destabilizing stuff has been from internal actors and they didn’t need AIs for that.

I do think there’s some cause for concern in that foreign actors who previously had a difficult time producing useful (for their purposes) English-language content may have an easier time now that they have Large Language Models (LLMs). But there are still going to be barriers.

You would still need fluent English speakers to prompt the LLM, check the output, and edit it. Even native English speakers trying to get an essay out of ChatGPT often can’t use the raw product without reworking it a little. Someone who speaks little or no English trying to use one of these to write English disinformation is only going to get the “right” disinformation by accident.

Personally I'm waiting for the whole RTX fad to end (or the next gimmick I guess) before I invest in another card. I just don't see the need to upgrade when all I get is better lighting effects that make my games run slow.