Eranziel

You're completely right, if the goal is good customer support and decent working conditions for the operators.

It's not. The goal is like 1rre said - make people get fed up and stop trying to get their stuff fixed, just buy a new one. Oh, and they could fire half the operators too, since less people would be willing to wade through the pile of shit to talk to them.

Money and profit, screw the rest.

And an excuse to fire half of the support staff.

I didn't test other values but they're probably OK.

Excellent work, thanks for the laugh.

Yes, this is the crux of the matter.

If you give a person a choice between starving or screwing over the rest of society, they will choose the food nearly every time. Change the first part to "starve their children" and it basically becomes an absolute.

Yeah, people rating their insurance as "excellent" obviously comes with the implied "compared to other US healthcare insurance options," if you read the rest of it or spend even 5 seconds thinking about it.

This article and discussion is specifically about massively upscaling LLMs. Go follow the links and read OpenAI's CEO literally proposing data centers which require multiple, dedicated grid-scale nuclear reactors.

I'm not sure what your definition of optimization and efficiency is, but that sure as heck does not fit mine.

Don't look for statistical precision in analogies. That's why it's called an analogy, not a calculation.

No, this is the equivalent of writing off calculators if they required as much power as a city block. There are some applications for LLMs, but if they cost this much power, they're doing far more harm than good.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

I'll take a stab at it.

"Researchers spend $X to see whether poison leaking into the ground gets into our water."

Your first paragraph assumes that labour costs are the same in both markets and that there is little development or tooling cost to setting up that manufacturing base locally. Both are false, and both of those are really the reason overseas manufacturing is a thing in the first place.

Exactly this, and rightly so. The school's administration has a moral and legal obligation to do what it can for the safety of its students, and allowing this to continue unchecked violates both of those obligations.