• Psiczar@aussie.zone
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    10 hours ago

    They aren’t artificially creating this problem, they are inadvertently creating this problem.

    AI companies need RAM and other compute components to feed the AI beast which drives up demand, and cost but reduces supply for everyone, including their Xbox and Surface divisions.

    Given their enterprise divisions make vastly more money than their consumer divisions, nothing will change.

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      6 hours ago

      The problem is artificial, because 95% of all this ‘AI’ is useless, pointless, and a massive waste of resources. Nobody asked for it, and practically nobody is using it.

      Even in cases where a chatbot is helpful, a small, local model is more than enough. Not a single soul needs a 50T parameter model for anything. Nobody on the planet uses AI image enhancement or item removal.

      Almost all of this shit is purely made to inflate the bubble, and serves no other purpose. All the while ruining many other industries, people’s hobbies, ease of finding factual information online, etc.

      The problem is artificial, because it was created pretty much deliberately, for no particular reason other than profit.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s a solution in search of a problem.

        And it’s a bunch of misanthropic sociopaths with main character syndrome who read scifi novels and saw the warnings as a guideline because “I’m the super smartest, I can implement it correctly, and I have to be first, because those other guys won’t do it correctly”

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          6 hours ago

          Are they still ‘in business’ though? They’re burning through money they don’t even have at a never before seen rate. Just to make barely useful software that works 20% of the time at best.

          I feel like it’s the same as saying the banks and real estate companies were ‘still in business’ in 2008. Naturally, time will tell if it’s the same cycle repeating. So far everything seems to be pointing in that direction.