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The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
submitted 5 months ago by Curmuffin@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When the AI bubble pops, what will remain? Cheap GPUs at firesale prices, skilled applied statisticians looking for work, and open source models that already do impressive things, but will grow far more impressive after being optimized:

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[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

There were supposed to be cheap GPUs after the crypto bubble burst

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

There were when the first Ethereum bubble burst. That was one easier for the average person to get into with gamer GPUs, and they flooded the market on eBay as soon as it was no longer profitable.

Bitcoin won't do that, because it hasn't been based on GPUs for a long, long time. Ethereum doesn't even work like that anymore.

The AI bubble popping will only flood the market with GPUs that are useful for running AI models. The GPUs in AI datacenters often don't even have a display output connector. I think Corey is overstating his case on that one. Most likely, those GPUs are headed to the landfill.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

The AI bubble doesn't mean AI/LLMs aren't useful. It means datacenter speculation can't make money.

those GPUs are headed to the landfill.

They'll just have a similar discount to the Ethereum switch.

[-] jim3692@discuss.online 1 points 5 months ago

You can still use such GPU as an accelerator either for running AI, or for gaming. In either case, given that you workload is Vulkan-based on Linux, you can use vkdevicechooser.

Of course, you will need a second GPU (even the CPU's integrated one) to connect your display(s).

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