The Group Stage is history, and we are stepping into one of the most savage, unpredictable and crazy episodes of robot combat ever filmed! Armour is shredded, weapons are pushed to breaking point, and some of the fiercest fights in BattleBots history unfold in the BattleBox.

Say I’m a company with 1000 employees. A company like anthropic is offering to replace each employee with some sort of agent. Suppose the agents cost roughly $80k, where an employee costs $100k. I take that deal because it saves real money and replace, say, 500 employees with agents.

Now let’s assume just for the sake of argument that these AI agents do exactly as promised and truly do replace those workers and all of their responsibilities. Things seem great, I decreased my costs a lot and my business is buzzing along.

Now anthropic comes to me and says they’re going to increase their prices to $100k/agent. What now?

Since you’re trading individual employees for a company that’s providing the service at a cost, it’s effectively like these agents are unionized, in a way. They ask for a raise and you don’t comply? Okay fine. No work for you. Nothing you can say or do will get these agents back

Not only that, anthropic can leverage the absolutely insane amount of data they have to squeeze you for everything you’re worth. They probably have actuaries on staff who can figure out the maximum possible amount they can charge you before you leave.

Going to a competitor is easier said than done. There’s a lot of underlying infrastructure with AI that needs to be changed and adjusted to make it work. Each model has its own strengths and weaknesses. So maybe, you go to a competitor and it’s back to 80k/year, but now, code has a 10% higher error rate and you start losing money

idk. it just seems like this desire to get rid of labor entirely can only backfire. This is one way, but there are so many others too.

Duplicated from source: https://www.reddit.com/r/trueantiAI/comments/1wj748w/wouldnt_using_replacing_employees_with_ai/

More upsets and shocks in Round 2 of the BattleBots Pro League. Can former World Champion End Game from New Zealand regain momentum against the Indian monster Golden Fury? How will Valkyrie tackle Manta, one of the season’s most talked-about robots? And can MaDCaTTer continue its climb up the Group B standings against Magnitude?

Hosted by Chris Rose and Kenny Florian.
The announcer is Faruq Tauheed.

FIGHTS:
• End Game vs Golden Fury
• Manta vs Valkyrie
• Magnitude vs MaDCaTTer

Each team has only one more fight after this, so the pressure couldn’t be more intense.

Nothing important here, just thinking and ruminating.

I've been watching F1 for nearly 20 years, I love it. I've made it through reg changes many times. but something about this season is not clicking for me. I constantly feel like a fish out of water - why is this car losing out, where did that car find its pace, I guess they're harvesting energy? Couldn't tell ya.

I used to be able to watch practice, see a driver's form and pace, and make a fairly comfortable prediction how they might run, malfunctions aside. It was observable that cars had strong tracks, others they'd struggle. But this season is like a total crapshoot even in the best of times there's very little consistency.

I suspect the lack of on screen battery info is mostly contributing to these feelings, and the different stretches they are choosing for aero zones. I don't even feel motivated to discuss the races much because there's so many obfuscated variables it's near impossible to have an educated opinion. As if I'm watching a baseball game but I don't know the score, or who's on base.

I'm trying to push through it and still tune in but it's sort of killing my enthusiasm for the sport, and just wondering if anyone else is feeling this way?