It’s stupid how much they are pouring into hardware that might be vastly obsolete. By the time AI becomes truly intelligent, there may be specialized chips that are efficient at running models that blow GPUs out of the water.
Look at how it happened to bitcoin mining. Nobody serious is using a GPU to mine when ASIC is available.
However, I don’t see all this hardware hitting the second hand market once a better solution is found. I’m sure they will keep trying to make compute hard to get for the average person so they can rent out their servers for a crazy price.
Its worse. The expected life span of the compute server hardware is 2 years. The processors cannot be re-purposed and the memory needs to be re-packaged in a non-novel way. They will most likely send it too ewaste processing to get the precious and rare earth metals back.
Fuck this.
I remember in the 00s imagining what AI might be like.
I did not imagine soulless chat bot that was going to steal all the water.
Because it’s not real ai. It’s just marketing.
Thanks, gatekeeper! Is margarine real butter? Is saccharine real sugar? Is Lemmy real Internet? Is baseball real sports?
I bet it’s all marketing, all the way down. Nothing is real.
