Gravediggers [Forrest Brazeal]

leisesprecher , 6 hours ago

I wonder what will happen with all the compute once the AI bubble bursts.

It seems like gaming made GPU manufacturing scale enough to start using them as general compute, Bitcoin pumped billions into this market, driving down prices (per FLOP) and AI reaped the benefit of that, when crypto moved to asics and crashed later on.

But what’s next? We’ve got more compute than we could reasonably use. The factories are already there, the knowledge and techniques exist.

SlopppyEngineer , 6 hours ago

Finally very detailed climate simulations to know how hard we’re screwed

abbadon420 , 4 hours ago

I’ll buy a couple top tier gpu’s from a failed startup on ebay to run my own ai at home.

BehindTheBarrier , 4 hours ago

Compute becomes cheaper and larger undertakings happen. LLMs are huge, but there is new tech moving things along. The key part in LLMs, the transformer is getting new competition that may surpass it, both for LLMs and other machine learning uses.

Otherwise, cheaper GPUs for us gamers would be great.

magic_lobster_party , 1 hour ago

It will be used for more AI research probably.

Most of the GPUs belong to the big tech companies, like OpenAI, Google and Amazon. AI startups are rarely buying their own GPUs (often they’re just using the OpenAI API). I don’t think the big tech will have any problem figuring out what to do with all their GPU compute.

DashboTreeFrog , 8 hours ago

Ah, they’re digging their own graves!

Saw this like three times before I realized. Am dumb

sukhmel , 5 hours ago

I don’t think it’s that you’re dumb, I think it’s that first interpretation would depend on one’s views of the matter.

AI is quite a new phenomenon, sure everyone is now an expert, but we still don’t know what this will end up doing to the society