That’s a regular price for a basic nursing home as far as I know. We paid 3500 per month (7000 for two parents) for a nursing home that looked good at first but turned out to be horrible. Due to what I would call criminal negligence they both died after 1 1/2 years.
This does not reflect the general reality of German nursing homes at all. My experience with them is that most of them are just very grim places where old people are put to die quickly. The average time an elderly person lives in a nursing home in Germany is 2 years. That alone says a lot. It’s a profitable industry driven by overworked low-income workers. And it’s very expensive, even for the most basic of nursing homes. Having witnessed these horrors personally it makes me angry to read propaganda like this. Sure, there might be places where elderly are treated like this, but only if you can afford it. The vast majority of nursing homes are hell-holes. Germany can’t teach the world anything about good care for elderly people.
The scenario begins with AI agents undergoing a “jump in capability”.
Might as well stop reading there. Another fluff piece about how useful and capable AI supposedly is, disguised as a doomsday scenario. I’m so sick of reading this bullshit. “Agentic AI” based on LLMs does not work reliably yet and very likely never will.
If you complain about bugs in traditional (deterministic) software, you ain’t seen nothing yet. A probabilistic system such as an LLM might or might not book the correct flight for you. It might give you the information you have asked for or it might delete your inbox instead.
As a consequence of a system being probabilistic, anything you do with it works or fails based on probabilities. This really is the dumbest timeline.
Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a “safe” environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?
I know, but that’s the effective cost. You can get financial assistance though, it depends on things like “Pflegegrad” and other factors. But still, the system is horribly broken.