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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty typical that the only ones to suffer any lasting harm will be the longs and shorts who weren't first to act.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah. I think long term, many advancements in Ai will still need Nvidia chips and it will be better to have more of them still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, stock price rarely correlates with actual need and more with just hype. If you expect many people to buy a given stock, it makes sense for you to buy before them. If you expect many people to sell a given stock, it makes sense for you to sell before them. The actual need kind of just provides a baseline, i.e. even if the hype dies off completely, it'll still make some profit and pay out some fraction from that to anyone who's willing to park their money there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As to genuine AI needing better GPUs, I'll believe it when Jeff Hawkins says it's so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've read a couple of his books, and he's been developing a theory of human intelligence with the express goal of creating true AGI. His Thousand Brains book espouses a theory I find just about credible and, perhaps eventually, actionable.

It's all to do with cortical columns working in parallel on a pseudo-voting type of system. If at some point he says "we know how to make AGI now, but we're going to need really good GPUs", I will find that credible based on having read his work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. I dont think what we have now is general intelligence. It's just word prediction models. But they still manage to give an impression of intelligence. I think there will be some big change at some time where Ai models will use some different technology and probably give something closer to actual thinking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, nobody thinks what we have now is AGI. Not even the AI thinks it's AGI. It's just a words firehose being hyped to hell and gone because billionaires are so excited to fire their employees that they're jumping the gun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or said billionaires are trying to squeeze more money out of the AI bubble