RAM will be cheap! So will the dollar… Maybe I can get a good deal on upgrades to my server by reclaiming the gold in the contacts?
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
When this all crashes to the ground it’s going to be ugly.
fartographer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 13 hours ago
Keep that powder dry for the cheap RAM when the pendulum swings back.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I feel like some sort of scheme will be invented to fuck your average person over when that time comes.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Good joke, this.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ugly, yes, but also cheap.
zbyte64@awful.systems 13 hours ago
IDK, a lot of that data center AI hardware is built to self-destruct after a few years. It’s going to take time for the factories to retool before we see prices drop back down.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
But we might scoop up loads of cheap RAM, hard drives and a nice GPU!
Goodeye8@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Unless you’re planning on buying the whole rack you’re not scooping up anything, except maybe the hard drives. The memory and GPUs are not consumer grade hardware. Some of the GPUs you technically could hook up to your PC, for example the Nvidia A6000, but its launch price was ~$4500 so even on the cheaper end you’re shelling out probably $3000 for a card that (out the box) is marginally better than the 4070ti. Most of the GPUs and pretty much all of the memory is not compatible with your standard consumer grade MoBos.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Yeah I was a bit ironic, like just wait plebs you might get to buy the used hardware when I’m done with it.
Pechente@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Can’t happen soon enough. Few people want AI and now it will fuck over a bunch of people very directly. No idea how long the investors can keep inflating this bubble now.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
the problem is that governments want AI for their surveillance bullshit, especially FSA. they will never let any of these companies fail, and in fact will have no problem blowing $Xbillion of taxpayer money to bail them out
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
also the fact that teh AI, like palintir can be programmed to be biased against “dissent” like protesters against israel, or against the state, rather than “domestic terrorists”
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Local and self controled AI has some really cool applications. When I can afford it, replacing my home security cameras with something that stays local and not sent to the cloud is on my list of things to do. When I do that having a local AI do image recognition and tying it into my home assistant setup will be a cool project.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Yeah you need hardware for that. They’re making it so we can’t get hardware and we can’t self-host.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
You don’t think China sees the vacuum left from the current players exiting consumer markets? The protectionism playbook that the US has run is catching up to bite us in the ass, which will be accelerated now that China has EUV.
That and I expect used enterprise hardware to continue to be sold. I have an old hotel check-in computer as my current router running OPNSense.
morto@piefed.social 14 hours ago
There’s the ai that works well, has many useful applications and reasonable hardware requirements, and there’s the generative ai fucking everything and not giving us a proportional return in usefulness
melfie@lemy.lol 12 hours ago
I have multiple Reolink cameras and can recommend them. Everything can run completely locally with their app and the cameras blocked in the firewall while recording to a SD card. You can let the cameras connect to their servers for push notifications and remote access if you like (I unblock them in the firewall sometimes if I’m going to be away and want to access them).
The cameras have onboard ML that can detect humans, cars, pets, and motion, and it’s fully possible to leverage those events in HA, making a something like Frigate and a Coral TPU unnecessary.
Personally, I just use them with the app, as well as RTSP streams from VLC, though I did have local push notifications setup with HA in the past for human detection from my Reolink doorbell.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 15 hours ago
Do it! It’s super easy with Frigate addon for home assistant. There’s nice blueprints to handle the mobile notifications when you are out.
Impromptu2599@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Look into Frigate
phx@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I haven’t yet seen where use of AI hasn’t made things worse.
Agents: Every instance of AI for “customer service” I’ve run into basically just closed cases for invalid reasons, spouted bullshit, and was used to block interacting with a real human, trapping users in infinite loops (thanks eBay) or disconnecting on them (thanks PayPal)
Security: M365 seems to be relying heavily on this now, which means that the same phishing email which was successfully blocked last week will randomly get through a few times this week for no apparent reason
*Coding: sometimes useful, but also points to do stuff like reference functions that don’t actually exist in the API/language being used
spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I no longer deal with spam calls all day long because they get routed to Google Assistant/Gemini first and the AI agent filters the call for me. It has been pretty great like 99% of the time, I fully expect Google to kill it somehow.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They already planned and built many data centers by then and will use them. It‘s going to be cloud services all the way. Desktops or even capable phones will be a thing of the past as everyone expects you to source out computing power to a subscription service. We will own nothing. It‘s peak capitalism.