As Gilfoyle said when he gives his AI permission to overwrite code: “The most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the software, which is technically and statistically correct.”
A+
I can’t even imagine the amount of story ideas they have at their disposal now. It really is ripe for a reboot or revival. They were dealing with compression and data efficiency, I think we have surpassed those issues.
Since it ended we have had:
- Crypto currency
- NFTs
- “AI”
- VR
- Wearables
- Hardware shortages
- etc
Except in the show, AI actually solved problems, instead of causing them.
It’s not the AI that causes problems. It’s the CEOs that INSIST this bullshit needs to not only be part of our lives, but also affect our lives.
We can’t buy ram at reasonable prices. I hear storage (hard drives, and solid state drives) are also going to go back to being expensive.
GPUs as well.
This is just like a few years ago when all the crypto bros decided they needed all the GPUs. So prices went from $100 or so, to $700. I’ve heard of some high end GPUs at tge peak of it going for 3k.
Except this time, when the fad ends, I heard it’s going to collapse the entire US economy.
We’re being forced to prop up a technology that does not work in the ways they want it to, and never will. It can’t. Thats not something a computer can ever do.
It’s like saying a plane can fly at 550mph, and a pigeon can also fly. Therefore we’re forcing the entire united states economy to be dependant on pigeons flying from New York to Los Angelas in 5 hours.
It can’t do that.
So when it fails, it basically creates a global depression.
That’s what we’re doing here. The CEOs are at fault. The AI itself will only do what you tell it to do.
I’m referencing events in the show.
I’ve been in the tech/startup world since the early ‘00s and I can definitively say you best start believin’ in Silicon Valley episodes; you’re in one.
Yeah, first time I watched I was like holy shit, are they filming my life? So much they get right in that show, especially the egos and pettiness
I knew from the very first scene. Some company had just got bought so they had a big party and paid Kid Rock to play. But everybody was in polos and khakis and wanted to have quiet conversations and Kid gave up halfway through the first song.
I was at that party. It wasn’t Kid Rock, but I was at that party
These were minor outages. Not excusing AI. Just saying
Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.
If they don’t spread their infra across multiple availability zones, they deserve to die
/s
@return2ozma just an episode, not Season 7?
