The Artificial Intelligence Revolution
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For curiosity I checked what's happening in my state figuring it wasn't too bad here. What a surprise!
AI Overview
New Jersey hosts between 69 and 88, or roughly 80, active data centers, making it a top-five U.S. market for data infrastructure, particularly in Northern New Jersey near New York City. Key areas include Secaucus, Piscataway, Newark, and Clifton, with major facilities operated by Equinix and others.
Key facts about New Jersey's data center market:
- Capacity & Growth: The state has over 500 megawatts of capacity, with significant expansions like the Nebius 300-400MW facility in Vineland.
- Top Locations: Major, high-connectivity facilities are concentrated in Northern New Jersey (e.g., 165 Halsey, Equinix Secaucus).
- Market Drivers: The market is driven by high demand for AI, cloud services, and proximity to NYC, with over 10 million square feet of space
- Constraints: The sector faces challenges with limited space and power availability, leading to high utilization rates.
The last line in the AI Overview above, "leading to high utilization rates" I guess means higher electric costs. My December utility bill was $225 and we use oil heat.
One of the newly elected NJ Governor's campaign promises was that she was going to put a cap on utility rate increases. I'll see where that goes.
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Welcome to the Governor's Office - Mikie Sherrill is proud to serve as New Jersey's 57th governor. As your governor, she will be relentlessly focused on lowering costs, taking care of our kids, and delivering transparency and accountability from Trenton. This is your government, and it should work for you.
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AI enhanced robots replacing blue collar jobs
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Humanoid robots aren’t walking in demos anymore. They’re clocking in for real factory shifts. Boston Dynamics and Figure have crossed a line most people didn’t realize was this close — moving from impressive videos to robots that actually work, at scale, in real industrial environments. This isn’t about backflips or social media stunts. It’s about deployment, reliability, and what happens when machines can do physical jobs nonstop — and share what they learn instantly. The uncomfortable part isn’t the technology. It’s the timeline. The robot era isn’t coming someday. It’s starting now — and it’s going to force decisions most of us aren’t ready for. What do you think gets automated first?
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Short understandable summary, incredible engineering
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132,323 views Dec 6, 2025 #microchips #semiconductor #manufacturing
How are microchips actually made? From beach sand to billion-transistor processors — this is the most complex manufacturing process ever created by humans. In this video, you'll discover: → How ordinary sand becomes 99.9999999% pure silicon → The $150 million machine that prints with light hotter than the sun → Why a single speck of dust can destroy an entire chip → The 1000+ steps that take 3 months to complete Every smartphone, computer, and car depends on this incredible process. After watching, you'll never look at technology the same way again.
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ILove2Lurk
. . Lisbeth Salander . . Back in Sweden
Something Big Is Happening
Great article. More at link.
Might prove @TheSneakster comments about "dumb" AI (which I agreed with him at the time),
"garbage in - garbage out," all wrong in the very near future or even now in early 2026.
In 2022, AI couldn't do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.
By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.
By 2024, it could write working software and explain graduate-level science.
By late 2025, some of the best engineers in the world said they had handed over most of their coding work to AI.
On February 5th, 2026, new models arrived that made everything before them feel like a different era.
Great article. More at link.
Might prove @TheSneakster comments about "dumb" AI (which I agreed with him at the time),
"garbage in - garbage out," all wrong in the very near future or even now in early 2026.
Many years ago my auto mechanic told me about when he was fishing in a canoe on a very shallow lake. This was when the early flip phones first came out. He noticed two women in a canoe were looking down into the lake and he wondered if something was wrong so he paddled over. It turns out one of them had dropped her phone into the lake.
He asked the other woman if she also had a phone and she did. He told her to call the number of the lost phone and then blow into her phone and look for the bubbles which she did! true
He asked the other woman if she also had a phone and she did. He told her to call the number of the lost phone and then blow into her phone and look for the bubbles which she did! true
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Those robots would be useful in going into the Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Wishful thinking.
Robot Olympics coming up! Years ago there was a cable tv show called Robot Wars. People designed robots of maximum 250 pounds and put them into a fighting cage with the goal of total destruction of the opponent in 3 minutes. Fun to watch. You can watch episodes on youtube but I didn't see any I can transfer here.
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Type4_PTS
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There's no reason an AI enabled robot couldn't be created to do anything a trained soldier could do. The military probably has AI models way more intelligent than what is available to the general public.
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I usually scan some of the comments to make sure I'm not going to spend time watching something that's just BS. I'm not saying you would post BS, just that it's a habit I've formed since there is so much fake stuff these days. Even with valid videos I like to get different perspectives. Here's an exchange which gave me a laugh.
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He'll be sitting in the middle of a forest with a notebook and pencil writing poetry while the world burns. Smart guy.
the reply:
wrong, he will be sitting on remote land he bought with his stock options grants, shorting the markets from the me$$ he helped to create!
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Ya just never know
I usually scan some of the comments to make sure I'm not going to spend time watching something that's just BS. I'm not saying you would post BS, just that it's a habit I've formed since there is so much fake stuff these days. Even with valid videos I like to get different perspectives. Here's an exchange which gave me a laugh.
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He'll be sitting in the middle of a forest with a notebook and pencil writing poetry while the world burns. Smart guy.
the reply:
wrong, he will be sitting on remote land he bought with his stock options grants, shorting the markets from the me$$ he helped to create!
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Ya just never know
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SuperstarNeilC
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, global leaders openly described an AI system that can speak, persuade, lie, influence belief, and even reshape religion.
If you’ve read Revelation 13, that should make you pause.
The Bible describes an image that is given breath. An image that speaks. A system tied to buying and selling. A global structure people willingly follow.
So when Yuval Harari talks about AI replacing religion, becoming a legal “person,” and managing economies… you can’t ignore the parallels.
Is this the Antichrist?
No.
But is the framework being built?
That’s the real question.
In this video, we break down what was actually said at Davos — and why it sounds eerily similar to biblical prophecy.
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Anyone who uses a search engine realizes that AI already knows just about everything about everything - already. Regarding the internet, after getting fooled a few times by fake videos I'm extra diligent. Avoiding the internet and getting "prayed up" as the guy puts it at the end of the video might be helpful to some people.
edit: Just for fun I asked Mr. Google "How to prevent internet brain rot".
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Preventing internet "brain rot"—mental fatigue from excessive, low-quality content—requires curating your feed, setting strict time limits, and replacing passive scrolling with,creative, or long-form activities. Key strategies include implementing tech-free zones (meals, bed), using app blockers, and practicing "mindful consumption" to avoid doomscrolling.
WebMD +4
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SuperstarNeilC
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I wonder if AI divulges “confidential“ information. - The OT levels, for instance ?
Type4_PTS
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Lots of interesting things are happening this week. Below is a newsletter I received this morning from AI For Business. Some crazy things happened with the formatting when I copy/pasted it. 
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Here is a long comment from someone commenting on a video about Optimus 3 explaining why "humanoids" (human form robots) WON'T replace all human jobs.
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Seriously folks, for your own good try to understand this. Humanoids have always been useless as "workers" and it's EASY to explain why AI can't change that. We see how Amazon is replacing people and it's not with humanoids. Because robots ALREADY use Vision and AI and they don’t look like humans because humans are limited. (they have to climb ladders, hands too big for small things etc.) Automation has been replacing people for decades and it hasn't stopped! So if a humanoid could do it, it’s already automated! (1) Just look at history. (2) So NO, they WON'T become useful as technology and AI improves.
In other words. Humanoids will never be able to do most jobs because most jobs are doing things that robots (software automation and/or hardware automation) cannot do. Humanoids ARE robots so they will never be able to do those jobs. They will be toys. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest from the trees. ——————
Look at it this way. If AGI could assemble widgets or do surgery or manicures, etc. it would need special tools not batteries, hands and legs. Optimus is not strong enough to dig a hole or help someone get up off the floor. It can't even work at McDonalds. If it makes a mess putting popcorn in a cup with a human brain behind it, could it do much better with an artificial one? Can it wash its hands? How long would it take it to change gloves, start a roll of tape etc.? A humanoid MUST do a job on par with a person because workplaces are made so people along with machines maximize asset utilization. That is why you CAN'T just put two humanoids in place of one person.
This is why no one has EVER shown ANY humanoid doing any useful job that a person was paid to do. But AI could make it a fun toy or criminal.
If you have a trade job, you’d realize it would be impossible or impractically slow to do it with robot hands. Have you ever seen it use hand tools? No amount of AGI Learning or training is going to make the hands better with tools, scissors, small parts etc. Making hands equal to a person is impractical and unnecessary.
Hot, heavy, dirty and dangerous jobs. There are 100s of millions of them around the world. And if a humanoid could actually do it, LOL, most of those jobs pay super low wages in places where there is no electricity to charge it anyway.
Most of today's humanoids can barely complete the tasks from the DARPA robot challenge 10 years ago !?!
"Optimus will be the best surgeon" !? When AGI can do surgery, it will use existing surgical robots. A humanoid will not wield a scalpel.
"it's a humanoid so it can work in a human environment" The humanoid form or its brain doesn’t matter. What matters is what it can do.
Who will buy them? Certainly not factory or warehouse managers. They can't do trade jobs or hard labor. They will be lousy housekeepers, tour guides, popcorn servers, entertainers etc. ridiculed as toys and criminals will use them for nefarious purposes. At best it could be a checkout clerk that will restock the store at night if it ever really gets a brain. Credit only, robot hands can’t handle money well.
But they would be really nice if a handicapped person could use it as a telepresence to go shopping, do simple chores, etc. Please make a version like this despite "empathy is weakness"
A better use for AGI in factories would be to replace low precision sensors. Example. If an AI agent could watch a conveyor line and all the parts on it, it could control the motors, escapements, pushers, etc. and it could see where things are without the need for sensors. is the escapement in place, is the part? what type, orientation, how many, did it fall? You could eliminate a bunch of sensors that are costly to maintain, it would save a ton of money on parts, engineering, programming, maintenance and downtime. It could be a natural language (instead of ladder or state) programmable logic controller. The new PLC will be NLPLC with the usual outputs, and mostly vision inputs. Keyence and Cognex already use vision to inspect, measure, identify etc. AGI could take it to the next level.(maybe they're working on it) you'd need several cameras at different angles for reliability/redundancy so AI is needed to identify targets from different angles and if cameras move. Maybe language programming would be a separate AI. It sounds like it might be a low bar for AI but I doubt it's really that easy.
(1) It's first principles. If the goal is to emulate a human then you must make a humanoid/android. But if the goal is doing things that a human can do, then first principles DOES NOT dictate a humanoid. So AI is already "embodied" or "physical". (ill conceived terms, us old folks say, smart sensor or smart tv) And if you do want to emulate a human, you must choose which characteristics you want. It may need sensitive hands to feel slight imperfections or it may need durable hands for hard work. So a one-size-fits-all like Optimus is not practical. Unless it can reproduce, heal and recharge itself for decades by simply eating and sleeping. (emphasis mine)
(2) Warehouse managers needed people to store and retrieve items. Now warehouses are full of non-humanoid smart robots. People had to pick parts out of a pile and place them with correct orientation. Now one arm one eyed robots do it. People had to pick up parts to inspect and measure them. Now lasers measure them and vision systems inspect them. PID controllers became self tuning. As tech/learning/AI improved, so did machines and machine controllers. Just like computers taking jobs with spreadsheets and scanners. All the while someone was saying a humanoid will soon do the work.
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In other words it will be a LONG time before a humanoid will be able to serve you breakfast in bed. "I'll have two scrambled eggs, coffee, toast and orange juice. And don't spill anything!" haha
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Seriously folks, for your own good try to understand this. Humanoids have always been useless as "workers" and it's EASY to explain why AI can't change that. We see how Amazon is replacing people and it's not with humanoids. Because robots ALREADY use Vision and AI and they don’t look like humans because humans are limited. (they have to climb ladders, hands too big for small things etc.) Automation has been replacing people for decades and it hasn't stopped! So if a humanoid could do it, it’s already automated! (1) Just look at history. (2) So NO, they WON'T become useful as technology and AI improves.
In other words. Humanoids will never be able to do most jobs because most jobs are doing things that robots (software automation and/or hardware automation) cannot do. Humanoids ARE robots so they will never be able to do those jobs. They will be toys. Sometimes it's hard to see the forest from the trees. ——————
Look at it this way. If AGI could assemble widgets or do surgery or manicures, etc. it would need special tools not batteries, hands and legs. Optimus is not strong enough to dig a hole or help someone get up off the floor. It can't even work at McDonalds. If it makes a mess putting popcorn in a cup with a human brain behind it, could it do much better with an artificial one? Can it wash its hands? How long would it take it to change gloves, start a roll of tape etc.? A humanoid MUST do a job on par with a person because workplaces are made so people along with machines maximize asset utilization. That is why you CAN'T just put two humanoids in place of one person.
This is why no one has EVER shown ANY humanoid doing any useful job that a person was paid to do. But AI could make it a fun toy or criminal.
If you have a trade job, you’d realize it would be impossible or impractically slow to do it with robot hands. Have you ever seen it use hand tools? No amount of AGI Learning or training is going to make the hands better with tools, scissors, small parts etc. Making hands equal to a person is impractical and unnecessary.
Hot, heavy, dirty and dangerous jobs. There are 100s of millions of them around the world. And if a humanoid could actually do it, LOL, most of those jobs pay super low wages in places where there is no electricity to charge it anyway.
Most of today's humanoids can barely complete the tasks from the DARPA robot challenge 10 years ago !?!
"Optimus will be the best surgeon" !? When AGI can do surgery, it will use existing surgical robots. A humanoid will not wield a scalpel.
"it's a humanoid so it can work in a human environment" The humanoid form or its brain doesn’t matter. What matters is what it can do.
Who will buy them? Certainly not factory or warehouse managers. They can't do trade jobs or hard labor. They will be lousy housekeepers, tour guides, popcorn servers, entertainers etc. ridiculed as toys and criminals will use them for nefarious purposes. At best it could be a checkout clerk that will restock the store at night if it ever really gets a brain. Credit only, robot hands can’t handle money well.
But they would be really nice if a handicapped person could use it as a telepresence to go shopping, do simple chores, etc. Please make a version like this despite "empathy is weakness"
A better use for AGI in factories would be to replace low precision sensors. Example. If an AI agent could watch a conveyor line and all the parts on it, it could control the motors, escapements, pushers, etc. and it could see where things are without the need for sensors. is the escapement in place, is the part? what type, orientation, how many, did it fall? You could eliminate a bunch of sensors that are costly to maintain, it would save a ton of money on parts, engineering, programming, maintenance and downtime. It could be a natural language (instead of ladder or state) programmable logic controller. The new PLC will be NLPLC with the usual outputs, and mostly vision inputs. Keyence and Cognex already use vision to inspect, measure, identify etc. AGI could take it to the next level.(maybe they're working on it) you'd need several cameras at different angles for reliability/redundancy so AI is needed to identify targets from different angles and if cameras move. Maybe language programming would be a separate AI. It sounds like it might be a low bar for AI but I doubt it's really that easy.
(1) It's first principles. If the goal is to emulate a human then you must make a humanoid/android. But if the goal is doing things that a human can do, then first principles DOES NOT dictate a humanoid. So AI is already "embodied" or "physical". (ill conceived terms, us old folks say, smart sensor or smart tv) And if you do want to emulate a human, you must choose which characteristics you want. It may need sensitive hands to feel slight imperfections or it may need durable hands for hard work. So a one-size-fits-all like Optimus is not practical. Unless it can reproduce, heal and recharge itself for decades by simply eating and sleeping. (emphasis mine)
(2) Warehouse managers needed people to store and retrieve items. Now warehouses are full of non-humanoid smart robots. People had to pick parts out of a pile and place them with correct orientation. Now one arm one eyed robots do it. People had to pick up parts to inspect and measure them. Now lasers measure them and vision systems inspect them. PID controllers became self tuning. As tech/learning/AI improved, so did machines and machine controllers. Just like computers taking jobs with spreadsheets and scanners. All the while someone was saying a humanoid will soon do the work.
Show less
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In other words it will be a LONG time before a humanoid will be able to serve you breakfast in bed. "I'll have two scrambled eggs, coffee, toast and orange juice. And don't spill anything!" haha
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AI was supposed to make us faster, smarter, and more creative. It did the opposite. In this video I'm going to explain how LLM models stopped improving in late 2024. I'm going to tell you exactly why, and I'm going to prove it. We'll discuss all the various ways AI can damage you - from bad information and hallucinations all the way up to cognitive atrophy and decreased productivity. When you're done watching this video you may just rethink your ChatGPT subscription, and you're definitely going to rethink your OpenAI and Nvidia investments! TLDR: LLM technology CANNOT reason and thus can never reach AGI no matter how much you scale compute! If you enjoyed watching please subscribe for weekly updates. 00:00 INTRO 02:55 THE PRODUCTIVITY MIRAGE 07:05 THE COGNITIVE LOBOTOMY 10:57 THE MATHEMATICAL CEILING 15:55 CONCLUSION #llm #openai #ai #nvidia
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