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Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What was the last breakthrough that wasn't a pile of fraud? Multicore processors?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I remember a truly innovative and exciting tech announcement. Web 3.0, Crypto, and now AI have all been kind of hype driven duds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Computers as tools peaked at email, spreadsheets and hypertext.

Everything since is just rent seeking seeping in.