My Rysen 7 processor never gets above about 60c. It has good, silent fans though. I don't have a gpu, and even so, an average query might mean i need to wait ten seconds for it to understand and begin answering. It produces output faster than I can read it.
it's a waste of time running AI on a home computer unless you have the stuff that SW buys. It's time consuming to setup and maintain a homelab. Just go to https://aistudio.google.com/ - you get several months of free usage. By the time you use up one freebie, they offer you two more to try...
The guy isn't right. Unlike the USA or Canada, our 280 or so oil and gas fields are so close to a dozen of countries in Europe that the producers don't need to supply us first. They just sell to the highest bidders. Sure, if the oil and gas industry is nationalised then I will agree that burning gas makes sense.
We should have done that, like the Norwegians. They have a national wealth fund of massive proportions and are because of it, the richest population in the world. Stuff like the natural resources of a nation should not be pillaged by mega corporations who then sell back to the people their own nations resources at a world market price. The Norwegian government has the largest shareholding in Equinor - 67% and the rest is publicly traded on international stock exchanges. The capital raised by this means benefits the company and the Norwegian state gets the lion's share of the profits. On top of all that, they recover tax and fees from the corporations they use to extract the oil and gas and 5.5% of Norway's population are directly employed in the business of extracting, and exporting oil and gas.
Privacy is the big problem there, "Free" means you're the commodity. One of my projects is predicting stock prices and years ago I made an algorithm that works well for small time increments, rather like the robotraders which might work on the same principles. Trouble is, you need a trading desk and API access to make ultra fast trades, so I'd like to develop something for long term investments. Warren Buffet's brain ought to be digitised while there's still time.
Impressive but still a bit meh:
Google and also amazon are after professional users who spend hundreds if not thousands every month
Who owns copyright of it's creations? I can see Veo 3 and the like being useful for a business like yours, if blended with real video elements and segments for the purposes of instruction, promotion.
Best clarify before use - I've known people who've been issued with automatic demands for money. Systems scour the internet 24//7, issue eye watering demands. The last one settled out of court for £2k. They had demanded £50 for every time the photo was viewed on their very busy website. The photo wasn't AI generated.
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