https://www.ft.com/content/0d474498-4d9b-4c1b-8502-71248c720c04

European gas prices hit a two-year high on Monday as colder weather boosted demand, accelerating withdrawals from the region’s fast-depleting storage facilities.

I think the 'long, hard' is an exaggeration (my wife agrees) but afaik cold weather is definitely correlated to higher gas prices

Dec 30, 2024, 10:30 AM CST

Northwest Europe is bracing itself for what is expected to be later this week the coldest snap so far this winter, hours ahead of the expiry of the deal for Russian gas transit via Ukraine to central Europe.

Temperatures in the UK, France, and Germany are expected to plunge at the end of this week, which would raise gas demand for heating and electricity generation.

This happens as Europe is burning through its natural gas in storage at the fastest pace in years.

Temperatures in the big European capitals London, Berlin, and Paris are all expected to plummet below freezing and below the average for the past 30 years, according to weather forecasts cited by Bloomberg.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europe-Faces-Coldest-Winter-Spell-As-Gas-Supply-Concerns-Mount.html

And about the command creation, it is laughable to waste this kind of energy on this easy of a task.

You better watch out or I'll generate another image

Thank you for your comment, go back to Google

not allowing aid to enter the enclave

Hundreds of trucks of aid have flowed into the shattered enclave daily since the truce went into effect in January

what?

Those numbers are interesting but what is the result of this? eg. because NASA has approximately 35% women and 30% minorities, it has what level of increased productivity? what has actually come out of this?

Depends, let me know if your battery life is suddenly cut in half ;)

Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.

https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096

Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967

Going to hit 40% of jobs in 5 years the next

Is it magic beans and snake oil, eg. a scam or is it a legit threat, you can't have both

This is set up to be a massive crash.

For who? Who is going to crash massively? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Are you are expecting these massively diversified trillion dollar companies to fail due to AI?

Yeah, and what they’ll do is invent sources from thin air

The sources are right there next to it? You click on them and it takes you to the source, could you maybe try it for 5 seconds and then get back to me before you just make stuff up? what are you, an AI?

or draw made up conclusions from real sources

This feels like I'm having a conversation with a boomer talking about wikipedia.

Yeah, it's always best to check the original sources and not just believe everything you read on the internet, no different than clicking on results in google and getting a page full of misinformation which people are doing every minute of every hour of every day, and don't even get me started on social media.

The fact that web searches are getting worse is biasing your ability to objectively evaluate AI searches

Web searches were getting worse long before AI came along, SEO spam has been a thing since forever, maybe we're rose tinting our own glasses because Google was so much better than Dogpile and Altavista?

Ironically, the bot articles are being written by the AI that you’re defending

I know and I think the search engines should do something about them (however I suspect they won't as it'll make their results even worse somehow), if I want AI results I will use AI, I wish wikipedia had a health portal that was more personalised? like something to replace all the health websites like webmd/healthline/verywellhealth which now that I look at them closer appear to be slightly done up AI websites anyway, eg. just summarising research papers... so now that I think about it they might be next to go so long as ai is quoting sources which:

Unless I can cite the results of a search it’s useless to me

Gigabrain (already linked) and Perplexity does this:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-lemmy-ml-Q_mHphL3T.i2dA16PDKtAw

When using social it's summarising reddit, when using Academic it uses academic sources:

You can also use AI for language learning:

https://morpheem.org/

To quote Mistral 7b:

A bubble in finance is when the price of an asset or security rises far above its true value due to speculation and hype, fueled by investors buying with the expectation of selling at a higher price. Prices rise based on market sentiment rather than fundamental value, creating a self-reinforcing cycle until enough investors realize the bubble's unsustainability and sell, leading to a sharp decline in price and potential losses for those who bought during the bubble phase.

I'm certain there are plenty of companies that have latched onto AI and gotten a temporary stock price boost, Nvidia is doing extremely well based on its hardware being king for AI, out of this but I'm not sure where the dot com style bubble is?

In crypto it's easy to point out, the whole thing is practically a bubble that never seems to pop, but where is the bubble in AI? Is it not a financial bubble you're talking about but a hype one?

Maybe some AI companies will go broke (maybe openai? or claude? or mistral? maybe?) but we still have all the open source models so the tech will still be here, it ain't going anywhere

https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending

Not only that but from all the examples I've given you, AI to me provides a ton of genuine value, it is valuable to me as a programmer, it does provide search results that I find useful, it does generate images that I think are useful, people are using it to make music videos that are popular (11 million views in a month):

The Drill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXZoMocpM8

Songs: AI Took My Job https://suno.com/song/14572e0f-a446-4625-90ff-3676a790a886

It's hard to say it's a bubble when the value is clearly present, whether you can make a ton of money off that value is something else, but the value is definitely there

Do you actually trust the shit the AI feeds you?

About as much as I trust anything on the internet or reddit, if I'm not sure, I just search a bit more, there's no limit to searching, I can search all day ^^

as someone who uses ai daily i’m not sure what could replace it, ecosia search results are sometimes ok (i haven’t used google in years) but a lot of the time the questions i ask have bot style “articles” with the exact same page layout anyway, so no use there or i don’t get my question answered

When I want real world opinions on a product or thing i used to pop site:reddit.com on the end but now i use https://thegigabrain.com/ as it does a far better job with searching and summarising the posts into useful information

then i use usually a 7b or 14b local llm using gpt4all, lately i use reasoner which has a built in javascript sandbox

https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute

basically you can watch ai fix any errors that it generates in real time and produce better coding results which helps me code and i have a home battery powered by solar so no grid usage there

finally i use https://chat.mistral.ai/chat when generating random ai images which i think are funny or interesting or i’m not at my pc

i’m probably 75% ecosia 25% ai but that 25% gets me answers and is invaluable, not to mention the answers are getting better every week as opposed to web searches which appear to be getting worse