I can't help it. I know it's all perfectly innocent. It's just a candid shot of a couple billionaires hanging out like the great buddies they undoubtedly are. But I can't shake the feeling like it's the sort of picture you'll catch on social media every now and then; some black and white image of a historic figure shaking hands with someone utterly incongruous, wildly nefarious, or maybe just plain awesome.
You'd look at the jumble of black and white pixels with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, knowing the history of both parties, what brought them to that point and maybe what occurred after that picture was taken. And then maybe even ascribe some import to that meeting, however brief. We know these two people—Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta/Judo fame, and Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO—and we know what huge impact the both of them, largely through their respective companies, have had on our worlds up to this point.
There's always the temptation to look upon AI as something that is inherently dangerous, and the next 'other' that's going to bring about the end-times. Repent. Repent. But there are genuinely positive ways that AI, used properly, could have huge implications for our future to all our benefit. I'm not talking about chatbots or being able to create a modest facsimile of a Cezanne from little more than asking your computer to 'do me some post-impressionist pics'.
So, looks like Putin's ordered the Russian government to 'consider the issue of organising' domestic versions of the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Steam itself