With tool calls and RAG and whatever, they’re significantly more capable now. Even a small self hosted model can do more than gpt before it got those abilities.

If you wire up access via tools or MCPs, your personal Jarvis could do tons of things. It won’t be actually intelligent but it’ll fool you. Response times are atrocious on current hardware though. Jarvis had a response right away

I think I’ve read it before! And I think I’ve seen it implemented in public urinals.

That’s ignoring the very common issues multiple models have where the coolant leaks into the motor and you need a new motor/transmission unit. You really have to do your research on the exact model you’re buying.

And research battery pack repairability. New pack costs more than a used car, but in some, single cells can be replaced if needed. It’s rarely every multiple cells that fail, but if a single one does, the battery is nearly useless.

Luckily they test shock/strut function at the annual inspection. If it’s below a certain percentage, your car fails.

If they don’t do mandatory inspection in your country, you’re sharing the roads with death traps that could crash into you at any moment because who knows if they even have brakes. In that case, who cares about worn struts?

Anyway, from experience, original struts are usually good for 200-300k km but I’ve seen more than that and still good. On mostly German cars. Of course if you see an oil leak from a strut you should get that pair replaced immediately. At that kind of mileage, you get a handling improvement if you replace them before outright failure, but they’re not actually dangerous at anything resembling sensible driving.

You can barely get an EV old enough not to do it, if at all. You can easily get an ICE old though though

But yes, it’s all new cars.

The owner wants his business to make money. If hiring white or black people means earning less money why would he do that?

I was once asked why I aim for the water if it’s noisier. This is why

They’re talking 10 gigawatt data centers now. That’s multiple small countries worth of power consumption and consequently heat generation. I live in a country of a million point something people and our peak is 1.6 gigawatts. For the entire country. Including multiple non-AI data centers.

You can improve the HVAC efficiency but fundamentally you still have gigawatts of heat generation to dissipate. You know what’s really good for that? Evaporating water, especially in a desert where humidity is low.

I think the idea is that customers expect Asian looking people at a Japanese or Chinese restaurant, not that the owner is racist. Of course said customers can’t actually tell the difference between different Asian ethnicities usually.

Interestingly enough, not the correct use for that word lol

Your own Jarvis is starting to be increasingly possible if you’re into self hosting. Of course nobody is getting rich off that so they don’t advertise it. Oh and latency is still a bit of an issue. The “thinking” phase of an agent doesn’t generate output that’s directly useful to your question so it’s not shown by default what’s going on.

And now this whole ordeal has got me wanting to watch the Iron Man movies

The best advancements in usability of AI haven’t all come from training larger models. Tool usage is super useful and doesn’t require new training for new tools, etc.

Deepseek for example doesn’t have a monthly release schedule, they’ve only released one version so far this year.

Plus for new knowledge, there’s web search. It’s no longer strictly true that AI output is restricted to information available before the cutoff date.

At this point you only really need to train a new model if you’re trying out architectural changes, you don’t need to crank out constant updates.

When nobody gives a fuck, it unfortunately holds true.

I mean if you’ve you hardware that needs upgrading, you aren’t playing new games at medium anymore either and your display is probably 1080p anyway.

The point of laundering is to wash money acquired illegally. Meaning you still have to pay the taxes.

If the 500 KG of cash lands on your lap legally and you can somehow prove that, you can just declare it as income and pay the taxes. If it’s drug money or something then you’ll have to launder.

I do, however, live in the real world. Where anyone giving you a decent price for your gold is subject to AML laws.

Cash is honestly easier for your average person to deal with. Either way you’re either going to pay a ton of taxes or you’re going to hide everything. Gold is great if you have a trustworthy buyer that’s not operating legally, in which case you can… Turn it into cash. Woops.

But they’re not. Zipper merges might be the efficient thing to do, but here everyone is taught to merge early so the guy doing 70 km/h in the empty lane when the speed limit is 50 and then demanding to merge is generally seen as an asshole by everyone else, especially because those people usually don’t wait for you to make room either, they often just start merging into other cars knowing someone will hit the brakes.

If you’ve got a PC built in the last few years you can play them anyway.

Mostly this affects people whose PCs are pretty old already :/ but like if you’ve got an AM4 build you can just upgrade your GPU and maybe CPU if necessary and keep your good ol’ DDR4. AM4 truly the GOAT of CPU sockets in terms of longevity.

That’s the biggest baddest model out there. There are models that get you 90% of the way there with a significantly smaller parameter count and thanks to MoE offloading you don’t need the entire model active at once.

A 5090 and a beefy CPU and tons of RAM won’t be cheap or even affordable to most, but you could run very big models and have a beefy PC for other activities. But even a 16 GB card could do plenty.

I can tell you the vast majority of people don’t care AND Raybans gets their name in the media more often so it’s marketing for them.