Artificial Intelligence

Article entirety is chatGPT 5 sucks.

OpenAI has inside politics on being backed for Skynet. MSFT has put a lot of eggs in their basket. Sonet 4 is probably best US AI. Beyond OpenAIs incompetence and overhype, US AI is doomed by policy to ban solar/renewables. Every coal plant that was closed due to renewables growth was a massive quality of life improvement for every living being within 100 miles, never mind the climate destruction.

While datacenter growth in US was a bigger component of Q2 GDP growth than consumer spending (0.8% vs 0.7%), US does not have the supply chain to support electricity growth other than behind the meter solar. Refurbishing closed coal plants to power US AI is the low hanging fruit that doesn't get to desired Skynet.

Deepseek v3.1 just dropped. Has big benchmark gains. OpenAI obviously cheated at benchmarks with v5, and its 120g open source model (training on them). I have no idea if deepseek did, but doubt it. Deepseek is also optimizing for training on Huawei chips (FP8 precision). Open source, locally run, is certainly only candidate for trust, regardless of China vs US source, and datacenter model somewhat doomed other than the to-be-well-financed Skynet ambitions.

Expensive monopolist extortion energy pricing in US, about to get scarcer, makes any industrialization or privatized Skynet militarization of AI an uncompetitive impossible goal. Extortion of consumers will cause resentment of GOP. Nevermind coming stagflation and collapse.