New AI chatbot from San Francisco exposed as relying entirely on human responses, with its founder personally writing all the answers by hand.
A new "AI chatbot" named ChatTJB has recently emerged in San Francisco, USA, but the "AI" behind it is not Artificial Intelligence—it refers to an Average Individual. Created by artist and former Google employee Tucker Bryant, ChatTJB operates by having Bryant personally read, contemplate, and manually respond to every question users submit. Its website dubs the project "Artisanal Intelligence," defining it as a "Single-Operator Large Language Experience (LLE)." Bryant stated the project aims to satirize users' overreliance on AI chat tools. He noted that as AI tools like ChatGPT grow in popularity, people are increasingly prone to accepting seemingly confident, polished answers while reducing independent thinking. ChatTJB is designed to deliberately lower efficiency, allowing users to rediscover the experience of waiting, uncertainty, and the thinking process. "It's not anti-AI—it's about encouraging people to rethink," he added. Besides text responses, ChatTJB also fulfills users' image generation requests with hand-drawn illustrations. The project's website explicitly clarifies that it is a satirical public art project, not an actual AI product. Bryant hopes that after experiencing ChatTJB, users will pause to reflect when encountering AI-generated content in the future: A smooth and confident answer does not necessarily mean a correct one.
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Serenity questions the professionalism of Barron's report on the optical module industry, pointing out that the complex supply chain analysis was assigned to a reporter with no technical background.
Serenity stated in a post that financial publication Barron’s may have underestimated the analytical complexity of the optical communications sector when planning to report on optical module supply chain firms such as AAOI.
Serenity noted that the optical module industry involves complex technical and commercial factors including supply chain structure, CW laser bottlenecks, internal capacity planning, revenue growth trajectories, and margin forecasts, requiring a background in engineering and industrial research.
Serenity quipped that Barron’s hired a new recruit from a non-profit communications consulting role for the relevant position, then tasked them with building revenue and profit models, analyzing supply bottlenecks and capacity on their first day on the job.
The new hire likely found the analysis of the complex semiconductor and optical communications industry chain "hard to grasp" and labeled the related companies as "meme stocks".
Serenity criticized that if media outlets themselves lack an understanding of industry logic, their coverage will ultimately revolve around market sentiment and hype labels rather than delivering in-depth industry analysis.
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Goldman Sachs: Storage costs account for roughly 62% of the bill of materials (BOM) for Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin superchip.
Goldman Sachs' latest report confirms that storage components are expected to account for roughly 62% of the bill of materials (BOM) for NVIDIA's next-generation "Vera Rubin" superchip. Citing Goldman Sachs' analysis, ZeroHedge reports that in the Vera Rubin platform, the cost share of the SOCAMM2 memory module on the CPU side is significantly higher than that of the HBM4 high-bandwidth memory on the GPU side. Goldman Sachs previously noted in May that as demand for AI infrastructure continues to grow, memory has become a key component of AI server hardware cost structures. This latest report further underscores the importance of the storage segment in the AI chip supply chain, especially as demand for high-performance memory for next-generation AI computing platforms surges rapidly.
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