Is it better to survive the crash and suffer, or just die in the initial turmoil? At this point I dont know.

The fact that none of these "AI" companies are making any profit whatsoever and are being kept afloat by having their debt traded and burning through investor funding means that something is going to give.

It reminds me very much of the dot com bubble. Everyone wanted in on it, but the vast majority of players were making nothing but enormous losses.

There are some useful avenues for "AI" - we run the high performance computing facility for an English university and there are definite, specific workloads that can benefit.

But the way it is currently being sold as a universal panacea and touted as the saviour (or destroyer) of mankind? Crazy, absolutely crazy.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

megatron-uk wrote on Yesterday, 18:10:

The fact that none of these "AI" companies are making any profit whatsoever and are being kept afloat by having their debt trade […]
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The fact that none of these "AI" companies are making any profit whatsoever and are being kept afloat by having their debt traded and burning through investor funding means that something is going to give.

It reminds me very much of the dot com bubble. Everyone wanted in on it, but the vast majority of players were making nothing but enormous losses.

There are some useful avenues for "AI" - we run the high performance computing facility for an English university and there are definite, specific workloads that can benefit.

But the way it is currently being sold as a universal panacea and touted as the saviour (or destroyer) of mankind? Crazy, absolutely crazy.

No further analysis than this is needed. AI bros simply bookmark this post and come back to it in 10 years when you have forgotten your own complicity in the madness.

Oh it's 110% going to be a thing. The cat is oit of Pandora's box and the general public is FAR too lazy to NOT use Ai slop. Nor do they care. It is what it is. The companies are fighting each other to ne the next google. Thats it. Once the bubble pops, it determines who our new overlord is.

Ive given up trying to steer the ship, I'm putting my energy into survival now.

luckybob wrote on Today, 01:31:

Ive given up trying to steer the ship, I'm putting my energy into survival now.

Ain't no LLMs running on no Quad-PPro workstation, amirite???

😄

If i can shoehorn a modernish gpu into one... I probably could run some small models.

luckybob wrote on Today, 02:03:

If i can shoehorn a modernish gpu into one... I probably could run some small models.

Yeah, after I typed that I thought about how much RAM one of those old rigs can probably hold and I'm sure it'd be enough for a very small model.

Challenge accepted? 😮

Im missing 2 OD processors. I keep losing ebay auctions as they go above my maximum bid of $420.69.