Friday, March 21, 2025

Still a better branding choice than "Soylent"

xAI calls its supercomputer Colossus

 
We could go back and forth about how much this is a joke or how much self-awareness it shows, but the main thing you should take away from this is that, as previously mentioned, Elon Musk and most of the other heralded Tech Messiahs got the vast majority of their ideas from postwar science fiction magazines, movies and TV shows.








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