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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pkill 3 points 4 months ago

...made using the arguably the most criminally environmentally disastrous tech we've invented in the past few decades. How ironic!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months 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.

[–] BehindTheBarrier 5 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

i think open source will build actually useful integrations due to the available compute

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, they're digging their own graves!

Saw this like three times before I realized. Am dumb

[–] sukhmel 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pkill 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Good luck to AI-based legal "solutions" startups, hope they and their customers are generously insured to cover for the fallout of such blatantly ignorant stupidity that completely discards our current subject matter expertise, which clearly shows that the error rate is too high, while you're either right about the law or you're not.

[–] pkill 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Why does it have to always be a hype that is a literal kick in the eye of gamers? Previously it was shitcoins, now it's hallucination engines... I'm afraid what's up next.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I think the torment nexus is next, but no one would ever build that so we are fine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Turns out massively parallel computation has applications beyond video rendering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

there's always amd.

[–] technom 1 points 3 months ago

That makes me wonder! All these new GPU uses are enormous energy hogs. Is gaming like that too?