Comment on AI Is Slowing Down
u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 week agoThat’ll work until they create for themselves new competitors that are good enough at previous (normal) market prices. And you don’t need incredible high foundry tech for that, so it’s closing up on them eventually.
r0ssar00@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Fair point! Counterpoint: Western countries tend to use national security to push back against effective competition (see also: EVs), so I don’t think it’s strictly a technical or knowledge issue, and that while eventually there will be competition, whether or not we can legally buy it might matter more.
(Whether security concerns are valid is a separate point outside the scope of my comment: on one hand, Wi-Fi cameras you buy are basically botnet members, on the other hand the allegations against (IIRC) supermicro were never (haven’t checked in a while, could have changed but I’d probably have heard already) substantiated so the whole “embedded surveillance hardware” theory is still a theory, meaning we should expect the quality of the firmware to be inconsistent. Not exactly something new: consumer BIOS/EFI tends to be buggy, manufacturers focus on the enterprise versions)
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Not “Western countries”, rather the “United States”.
If for example Europe was doing this, US Tech companies would have almost no market presence over here.
r0ssar00@beehaw.org 1 week ago
It’s good to know that there’s a part of the world where those arguments don’t gain traction! Here in Canada, a lot of what’s in the air supply tends to be what was in the US 10-15 years beforehand, I fully expect to see at least some arguments made using it eventually.