Folks aren't realizing the real game here. Our AI investments have been jeopardized by the Chinese figuring out how to make AI work with less processing power and non-specialized chips, being done on desktops. AI was the crown jewel of applications that was supposed to use all this new expensive infrastructure in the form of massive data centers to train and deploy AI that are queued up waiting for the ever more powerful versions that are taking shape to increasingly utilize more and more their processing and storage capabilities. Then the Chinese upset the apple cart. Now AI can be done on a desktop. This was probably known months ago before the election got into full swing by those who are paid to know such things in industry. Who is the most vulnerable in such a scenario? Those who own the most stock, which are billionaires and corporations. Think of not just the AI investments that are trouble, but now the infrastructure investments - power plants to power them, all of the construction materials and companies which support building and maintaining them. Computer hardware, software, etc. I believe Elon's takeover of government is all about getting rid of people so they can be replaced by our inefficient AI so Silicon Valley's long line of recent bad investments (Web 3.0, Self-Driving Cars, and now AI) can be made good by a takeover of government by Silicon Valley's tech bros. We surely won't be buying the Chinese AI, and the investments we've already made probably need to be made good. Enter Elon Musk into the Trump campaign in a surprise move. His supposed "corruption finding" is to get you to buy into the idea that our government is corrupt and needs replaced by AI software - where the corruption is more easily hidden, I might add - in the cost of subscriptions. It has already been mentioned to replace air traffic controllers just recently. The beltway bandits who will be the system integrators are probably salivating. That is why all the tech chiefs lined up to kiss Trump's ass and have basically switched sides in recent years, while blaming it on employees who were "too empowered". Guaranteed contracts where the government buys their subscription based solutions that we can't cancel once they are in place because their is no one left to do the jobs, but they need an autocrat so people can't get rid of them through democracy that can displace them either. Turns out it isn't immigrants that are going to replace you, it is Microsoft and Musk. Guess who gets soaked by their jinky software which is waaaaay overpriced and underperforming and requires specialize infrastructure? Yes, you - the U.S. taxpayer. One thing is for sure: all the tech companies have been lining up to build the infrastructure right outside of D.C. near Gainesville, VA for the past few years where the power lines are. One data center after another flying up, buying up entire neighborhoods. Why do you think that infrastructure is so close to D.C.? Hint: It's where they can replace the most people the quickest. You say you hate robo-calls? Wait until you can't tell the difference between people and AI - you've probably already been fooled. Humans need not apply.
Ugh, these conspiracy theories are not my jam. It also sounds like you’re buying the nonsense that DeepSeek only cost $6M? That’s not even close to being true. They also have plenty of Nvidia GPUs, and most likely stole competitor tech to release their model.
Embedding efficiency in the government with AI will and should reduce costs. If Musk is looking for an agency test case to implement an AI solution, he’s going to have a hard time doing within 2 years. If he is looking for more training data, he’s in the honey pot.
Can we at least admit their calculations might be way off on how efficient our AI models are currently and the processing power necessary to do the job? Even with that, we've had tons of sucking noises coming out of Silicon Valley for a long time with other initiatives. People are realizing AI is a crutch and they don't want it to compromise their natural abilities or even their factual knowledge, both which take years to hone. Otherwise it can be a tool in certain cases when doing things that aren't your specialty but it is seemingly falling flat even though nearly ubiquitous. iPhone sales are down. Microsoft Co-Pilot not hitting the way they thought, etc. There might be enough data to support moving into new markets by hostile takeover to shore up the future. Sounds a lot like what Musk just tried with Sam Altman and OpenAI? Especially if you are leveraged to the hilt like Elon Musk. The market gets a cold, he might just fold.
